RustAssistant: Using LLMs to Fix Compilation Errors in Rust Code

FRIEDERIKE NIEDTNER, Principal Technical Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers: The following talk combines two projects that both harness the LLM’s capabilities to understand and produce code. Both aim to help developers tackle the difficulties of safe low-level programming. One to ensure memory safety in legacy C code; the other presents RustAssistant, a tool for developers to automatically fix compilation errors in Rust. ASEEM RASTOGI: Hi, my name is Aseem Rastogi, and I’m a researcher in the Future of Scalable Software Engineering organization in Microsoft Research. I’m going to talk to you about our paper, “LLM Assistance for Memory Safety.” This paper will be presented at the 47th International Conference on Software Engineering in May later this year. The lack of memory safety in low-level languages like C and C++ is one of the leading causes of software security vulnerabilities. For instance, a study by Microsoft estimated that 70% of the security bugs tha ... Read full article.