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by mft_ 14 days ago
> This seems like a thinly-veiled ad for AI and for this person's company, at the end.

There was a very clear (what's the opposite of thinly-veiled?) advertisment for the person's company at the end! But I didn't read is as an advert for AI - that was just a tool that was used along the way.

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There are tons of tools the blog author could have used before resorting to using AI to convert an existing library to Python.

AI isn't "just a tool", the whole reason it exists is to offload thinking. I wish I'd noticed this needed "recovery" before this person did, I'd have extracted the files and been done with it. AI was not necessary for this at all

The ad was well past the lede