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Use coding AI to check yourself against how others do it

Code checking yourself against some. I hesitate to say best practices. But against sort of some popular ways of doing a thing. Because what this, what these code bots are trained on. Is everybody else's code.

Episode 220: Blame the Box! (episode page, opens in a new tab) May 9, 2025, 2:34 p.m. CT 00:30:16 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

After an LLM gave up on writing a Rust feed parser, Dave concludes that these tools are really useful for checking your own code against popular ways of doing things (he hesitates to call them best practices), because the bots are trained on everybody else's code.