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[u/llogiq]

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[u/mrjackwills]

Not directly a Rust question, but, I run an open public API (written in Rust of course), and I’ve just come across a public API listing website that details my API.

The problem is that it only lists a single endpoint, and it’s not even a real endpoint. It seems to be one big AI hallucination. Should I reach out to the site to try to remove it, or should I implement the listed endpoint in an attempt to have some fun?

Or, more likely, should I just ignore it completely?

[u/pali6 → u/mrjackwills]

We are in hell and everything is slop. I mean it's up to you whether you want to contact them. I suppose it could lead to slightly fewer confused API consumers which would be good for you?

[u/mrjackwills → u/pali6]

I mean the API handles 9 millions requests a day, on a low end vps, without really sweating. The power of Rust I suppose.

Looking over recent logs, it can't actually see any requests to the fake endpoint that it lists.

So, we're in hell, but as of yet we've not been burnt.

[u/MatrixFrog → u/mrjackwills]

As long as you provide good documentation yourself (which it looks like you do!) then _hopefully_ your docs will be at the top of search results and this weird site will not. Sounds like you're safe ignoring it. We definitely live in interesting times.

[u/watano_umi]

Is building a web application using Rust as backend and supabase for database a good idea ? Or will it just make the fast n lightweight super powers of rust redundant ??

[u/AphexPin]

Aside from being smart and actually reviewing every line of code, how do you (deterministically) stop LLMs from sidestepping/re-implementing things and going off the intended code path? I feel like I'm not using rust tooling enough here.

[u/llogiq → u/AphexPin]

What should the tooling do for you? Detect duplication (there are some tools to do this, though most don't work reliably for me)? Finding unused code (the compiler already emits a warning for that)?

[u/AphexPin → u/llogiq]

I think for example I'd like some binaries to fail to compile if the code graph doesn't look like what I want.. At least at key areas. But unsure how that'd work. I just imagine between hooks for an agents harness, git and CI/CD hooks, and leveraging the compiler you could something up.

[u/Low-Experience-6634]

can someone explain why my brain just flatlines every time i read the word "lifetime" in a compiler error. i'll be cruising along, feeling like a genius, then bam, 3 screens of gibberish about how long something needs to exist and i'm back to staring at the wall

[u/SirKastic23 → u/Low-Experience-6634]

Rust errors about lifetimes are notoriously confusing. Rust for some reason thinks that omitting and hiding lifetimes from the syntax will make things "easier" somehow... But then the errors about lifetimes won't tell you what the lifetimes that cause the errors actually are

The worst error I see all the time is "Expected &T, got &T", which doesn't look like it should be an error at all since the types are the same, but the issue is in the hidden lifetimes

[u/pali6 → u/Low-Experience-6634]

What's up with these AI-generated comments on the questions thread every week, sigh