Comment by JimDabell

3 months ago

> did he save any time though

Yes:

> It took me a few days to build the library with AI.

> I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand.

– > or just tried to prove a point that if you actually already know all details of impl you can guide llm to do it?

No:

> I was an AI skeptic. I thoughts LLMs were glorified Markov chain generators that didn't actually understand code and couldn't produce anything novel. I started this project on a lark, fully expecting the AI to produce terrible code for me to laugh at. And then, uh... the code actually looked pretty good. Not perfect, but I just told the AI to fix things, and it did. I was shocked.

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autoexec  3 months ago

> I thoughts LLMs were glorified Markov chain generators that didn't actually understand code and couldn't produce anything novel.

How novel is a OAuth provider library for cloudflare workers? I wouldn't be surprised if it'd been trained on multiple examples.

  • kentonv  3 months ago

    I'm not aware of any other OAuth provider libraries for Workers. Plenty of clients, but not providers -- implementing the provider side is not that common, historically. See my other comment:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44164204

    • nipah  2 months ago

      Novelness is not a characteristic of interpolation, tho, it's about extrapolation. If you have plenty of clients and plenty of related stuff to the provider side, even if on on auth, then it could be considerably trivial for the LLM to interpolate on that field.