Comment by fc417fc802
6 days ago
> An expert should be able to write that on the scale of an hour.
An expert in oauth, perhaps. Not your typical expert dev who doesn't specialize in auth but rather in whatever he's using the auth for. Navigating those sorts of standards is extremely time consuming.
Maybe, but also: Cloudflare is one of like fifteen organizations on the planet writing code like this. The vast majority of The Rest Of Us will just consume code like this, which companies like Cloudflare, Auth0, etc write. That tends to be the nature of highly-specialized highly-domain-specific code. Cloudflare employs those mythical Oauth experts you talk about.
That's me. I'm the expert.
On my very most productive days of my entire career I've managed to produce ~1000 lines of code. This library is ~5000 (including comments, tests, and documentation, which you omitted for some reason). I managed to prompt it out of the AI over the course of about five days. But they were five days when I also had a lot of other things going on -- meetings, chats, code reviews, etc. Not my most productive.
So I estimate it would have taken me 2x-5x longer to write this library by hand.
Would you have gotten to be where you are now, if AI would've always been there writing this code for you?
Would you have been able to review it for its faults, had you not experienced the pain of committing some of them yourself, or been warned by your peers of the same?
Would you have become the senior expert that you are if that had been your learning process?