this is purely anectodal, but i've tried getting coding help from gen ai a few times and it was never helpful

the last time i tried was particularly ridiculous: i was looking for z-combinator implementations in rust on google and gemini gave me an implementation suggestion. for those who don't know, the z-combinator is an eager variant of the y-combinator and the point of both of those is allowing you to implement recursion without using recursion directly

the code generated by gemini used recursion

and it didn't even compile