Comment by zahlman
5 days ago
The difficult part here is supposed to be the actual compilation to create the .wasm file ? Or what am I missing here? The wheel is only a few hundred lines of code outside of the Python implementation, and it would seem that the MicroPython version of the project already demonstrates the necessary techniques for operating wasmtime.
Read the transcript if you want to see all of the details that make this hard: https://claude.ai/share/a73b8b8b-8ebc-4fef-9e5c-7438e5e7ae35
Thanks. I had a quick run-through and I'm not really that impressed, though I'll cede that I have an atypical perspective on these kinds of issues. HN comments don't seem like the right place for a detailed critique of Claude's work here, but I've added it to my blog roadmap.
I will say that there are hardly any mis-steps in its chain of reasoning, but some odd approaches to problems and a fair bit of redundancy. Probably the most impressive part was spontaneously coming up with non-obvious issues to test, but this came with a fair handful of tests for obvious non-issues (like whether pip can extract a nested zip from a wheel without corrupting it).