advent-of-code-2022-in-rust

This is so cool! I looked at the transcript for day 5 [1] and realized how I learned the same thing regarding Rust strings not being indexable with integers due to them being a series of grapheme clusters. I didn't use ChatGPT and had to dig through the crate documentation [2] and look at stackoverflow [3], but Simon was able to get an equally great explanation by simply asking "Why is this so hard?" which I could relate to very much coming from C++ land. Now, the ability to trust these explanations is another issue, but I think it's interesting to imagine a future where software documentation is context aware to an individual's situation. The Rust docs are amazing and you can see they bring up indexing in the "UTF-8" section, but it requires me reading a section of the doc which I may not have realized was the reason for my frustration w

Here are my issue notes so far: https://github.com/simonw/advent-of-code-2022-in-rust/issues...

> It doesn't have any thought or understanding of its own Of course it doesn't. Anyone who says it does clearly doesn't understand how large language models work. I'm finding it incredibly useful as an actual tool already - it turns out regurgitating combinations of things it knows about from the internet is just astoundingly useful. I'm having it teach me Rust for example. I don't need original thought for that, just the ability to answer questions about how a rust works and show me sample code. https://github.com/simonw/advent-of-code-2022-in-rust/issues...