🤔 Compiler Errors in the age of AI

Language compilers have robust diagnostics reporting mechanism, it tries to be human friendly and tries to inform in easy to understand ways, well some of them python backtraces are not the best example and neither are some of C++ error message coming from compilers

You have to know the language syntax and semantics to a certain degree and some understanding of compilers as well. Interpreting compiler diagnostics is not for everyone therefore.

Coding agents, can be useful, if it can understand the diagnostics and explain the error with enlarged context and maybe Agentic mode to autocorrect and apply the change

This would help save a lot of time wasted in stalled CI pipelines due to mundane compilation errors which happen due to some unrelated change

Modern compilers do suggest a possible fix in some cases these days but not always.