Mixed
My impression is that LLMs are far more productive in Rust
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Helped: Structured language, compiler errors, and small units of work.
Got in the way: Unproductive loops in Python and large scope prompts.
This is extremely limited scope annecdata, but I've spent a few tens of hours each testing LLM coding agents in Rust for personal projects and in Python at work. My impression is that LLMs are far more productive in Rust. I attribute this to the far more structured nature of Rust compared to Python, and possibly the excellent compiler error messages as well. …