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Or just fix the error message and add a hyperlink to an explanation...

You don't need an AI you just need the right abstractions in the code.

The AI could help you learn if you really don't understand but for just telling you what went wrong you don't need it. In fact the compiler can already fix a lot of these things for you if they bothered to implement it (see fixit in clang)

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Exactly. Compiler developers wrote the logic for the errors you see, they (mostly) have the knowledge to explain the error, why do we need a language model trained on all this derived information, when it could be provided upfront together with context from your own source code.

Having a link to a detailed explanation would be amazing. Trying to even find the error message in a sea of c++ template notes is challenging...Then trying to actually parse it while examining the types is...painful.

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