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by jcon321 384 days ago
I think that experiment was very cool, but I will say that the OAuth2.0/OIDC protocol is very well documented and there are tons of tools already built around it in multiple languages.

I implemented the OAuth2.0 protocol in 3 different languages without a 3rd party library - entire spec implemented by hand. This was like ~2015 when many of the libraries that exist today didn't back then. I did this as a junior developer for multiple enterprise applications. At the end of the day it's not really that impressive.
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MrDarcy 384 days ago
Three weeks ago I did basically the same thing as the author of the Cloudflare story, but I did it with my own open source tool. I went into the experiment treating Claude Code as a junior engineer and guiding it on a feature I wanted implemented.

In a single Saturday the LLM delivered the feature to my spec, passing my initial test cases, adding more tests, etc…

I went to bed that night feeling viscerally in my bones I was pairing with and guiding a senior engineer not a junior. The feature was delivered in one day and would have taken me a week to do myself.

I think stories like the Cloudflare story are happening all over right now. Staff level engineers are testing hypotheses and being surprised at the results.

Oauth 2.0 doesn’t really matter. If you can guide the model and clearly express requirements, boundaries, and context, then it’s likely to be very useful and valuable in its current form.

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dcre 384 days ago
This is a great example of how no example provided is ever good enough. There’s always an argument that it doesn’t really count. Yet you just said the computer is doing what you did as a junior developer.
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kmacdough 384 days ago
It's not supposed to be impressive. It's a faster way to do the unimpressive stuff. Which is the bulk of real-world software work at most companies.

Maybe you just have that dream job where you only have to think hard thoughts. But that's just not the norm, even at a bleeding edge startup.

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ilaksh 384 days ago
Exactly how long did it take you? And now how much actual time was spent in the comparison prompting and code review by Cloudflare?
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