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Comment by JimDabell

6 days 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  6 days 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.