[zahlman]

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.

[simonw]

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

[zahlman]

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).