Today I asked ChatGPT to implement an oauth 2.0 token flow for me in bash. I tweaked a few parameters so it’d feed directly from a settings file in the folder I’m running it from. Then I realized we needed it in powershell, I pasted the tweaked script in and said “write this in powershell” and the script just WORKED. It was great. I don’t care about the oauth 2 workflow it’s well documented and implemented in our code in 50 places, I just wanted the script so I can integrate it into some automated testing. It would have taken me probably an hour of messing up syntax in bash and then figuring equivalents in powershell to finish up the script.

My coworkers were absolutely thrilled at my turnaround time. I was thrilled I didn’t have to do this boring task. I saw this as an absolute win.