Rust Example Turns Into a Simple Addition Program
wavefnx · x · 2026-07-12
The author asked a model to write a Rust cargo run --example ... snippet, which should ideally demonstrate how to use a library. Instead, the model provided an unrelated fn main() that simply added two numbers together.
In the quoted context, another user mentioned they would prompt more cautiously, though the overall result was still decent. The key takeaway is that models can still misinterpret "example programs" as standard minimal runnable programs, leading to task drift.
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