gazereth

Pinning dependencies is trading one problem for another.

Yes, your builds will work as expected for a stretch of time, but that period will come to an end, eventually.

Then one day you will be forced to update those pinned dependencies and you might find yourself having to upgrade through several major versions, with breaking changes and knock-on effects to the rest of your pipelines.

Allowing rolling updates to dependencies helps keep these maintenance tasks small and manageable across the lifetime of the software.

Personally I've found that you need to define the strategy yourself, or in a separate prompt, and then use a chain-of-thought approach to get to a good solution. Using the example you gave:

  Hey Chat,
  Write me some basic rust code to download a url. I'd like  to pass the url as an string argument to the file

  Hey Chat,
  I'd like to pass a list of urls to this script and fetch them one by one. Can you update the code to accept a list of urls from a file?

  Great work chat, you're really in the zone today!

  The downloads are taking a bit too long, can you change the code so the downloads are asynchronous. Use the native/library/some-other-pattern for the async parts.

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