A place for developers to talk about building on Farcaster.

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Currently my favorite way to learn

Use an AI (opencode.ai here) to give me just instructions, no editing permissions

I write all the code by hand 

I start small and expand until I build what I want to achieve 

It feels so good

DX Engineer | DevRel at OpenZeppelin | Building orbiter.host | stevedylan.dev/links | opinions are my own

Beware
Llms + rust have a tendency to hallucinate and set u back for a couple days on a design decisions that it will propose (personal experience). Llm also tends to super overcomplicate when presented with complexities of rust. 
Id highly recommend u read the rust official docs/book before trusting the llm, otherwise u will get burned by it. Rust compiler is much much more trustworthy.

If for example it starts to push lifetime specifiers into function / fn inputs dont listen to it. 99% the time u dont need that and it will greatly complicate your code. For most use cases u dont need to pass references to functions, cloning values (aka String vs &str) is much more simple especially on a fresh POC project. You can always go back and make it more performant. But the good shit is - its still gonna be 100x performance compared to JS even without special optimizations.

Good to know! I have briefly gone through the book before but need to revisit