It certainly had to iterate on lifetimes prior to Claude 4.5, at least for me. Prior to Claude 4.0 it was pretty bad at Rust.
replyMost LLM sucked at Rust at the beginning because there's much less rust code available on the broad internet.
replyI suspect the providers started training specifically in it because it appeared proportionally much more in the actual LLM usage (obviously much less than more mainstream languages like Python or JavaScript, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was more LLM queries on Rust than on C, for demographic reasons).
Nowadays even small Qwens are decent at it in one-shot prompts, or at least much better than GPT-4 was.
That matches with actual Rust use actually, I've worked with Rust since 2017 on multiple projects and the number of times I've used the lifetime annotation has been very limited.
replyIt's actually rare to have to borrow something and keep the borrow in another object (is where lifetime happens), most (95% at least I'd say) of the time you borrow something and then drop the borrow, or move the thing.
Yes, I basically do everything the lazy/thoughtless way for a first pass. I find in 99% of cases that's already performant enough and matches the intended data flow, but if you ever want to optimize it, you can. The same is also true with the types: you can bash out a prototype very quickly and then tighten them up later, using Clippy to easily find all the shortcuts you took.
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