alt Hacker NewsThe problem with ownership tracking is that it's global. Humans are bad with global things, linters too, but LLMs are exceptionally bad at them due to the context window and (currently, at least) not knowing enough where to search. So yes I'd expect them to make the same mistakes as human and even more frequently.
I feel like LLMs and vibe coding have opened up rust to the kind of script kiddie who would previously have been begging for help on r/javascript or whatever.
If there is a problem with global lifetimes then the problem is certainly the person driving (or not) the LLM. Global lifetimes? FFS. Rust is hard because writing services that don’t have bugs is hard.
LLMs are not currently able to vibe a sophisticated application or service in rust. If it tells you it can do it in typescript or python, the it most likely certainly has not and you will have a wonderful time in production. Rust will burst that bubble.