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MixedGemini · 21 Oct 2025

If there is a confusing compiler error, it will usually point me in the right direction faster than I could figure it out myself

shwaj on Hacker News

In the thread “The scariest "user support" email I've received”, replying to this comment

Helped: Resolving confusing compiler errors faster than manual debugging.

Got in the way: Jumping to wrong conclusions on complex problems and giving up.

… A couple of times per month I give Gemini a try at work, and it is good at some things and bad at others. If there is a confusing compiler error, it will usually point me in the right direction faster than I could figure it out myself. However, when it tries to debug a complex problem it jumps to conclusion after conclusion “a-ha now I DEFINTELY understand the problem”. …