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theshrike79today at 6:00 PM0 repliesview on HN

I used Sonnet 3.5 over a year ago to decrypt a notoriously shitty local government API to get data out of meetings, votes and discussions.

I know it's a piece of shit API done in the worst possible way on purpose (they don't want openness, but had to fulfill a law that mandates "openness") because I had previously tried to do it manually - twice. I ran out of whisky before I got anything done.

Sonnet _3.5_ almost one-shotted it with just the API "documentation" they had and access to Python and curl.

People have also hooked stuff into proprietary APIs on "smart" devices with zero documentation, just by having an Agent tirelessly run through thousands of permutations to figure it out.