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Well, I'd still want something I can read...

Asking Clodex to build me a hello world web backend in Rust, Go, Python: Python is read with great ease. Go is fine too, a bit verbose but still ok. Rust hurts my eyes.

I'd settle with Go for this use case.



I wouldn't overthink TFA. I mean, look at one of the examples of progress they gave:

> Nicholas Carlini, a researcher at Anthropic, orchestrated 16 parallel Claude agents to write a production C compiler in Rust. 100,000 lines. It boots Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. It compiles QEMU, FFmpeg, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and Redis. It runs Doom. Total cost: just under $20,000 across nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions.

Anyone who spends even 10% of an unhealthy tome on Hackernews should be able to confidentially say: It didn't boot, it didn't compile, and it did not run a Hello World, much less doom. It was a 20 thousand dollar fiasco and a joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941603

Of course you want code you can read. You live in the real world, and have a real world use case. One where you haven't yet learned to review Rust code. TFA does not live there.




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