alt Hacker NewsIt wasn't really, though. Creating a Python extractor was a side-quest that supported the end goal of making the original source code available and easily accessible.
(You're going to cut yourself off from interesting content more and more with this sort of kneejerk response to anything AI related.)
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By the by, creating a Python port of something originally in C is exactly the sort of routine work that current AI models are ideally suited to. Let them do the boring work with clear goals, while humans focus on the stuff the models aren't suited to.
My mum still likes to wash her dishes by hand, but I'm happy to delegate that task to a dishwashing machine, etc.
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Interesting analogy since there is lots of stuff you can't use a dishwasher for without harming or destroying it.
Creating the python extractor at all was sort of bizarre. The argument given was that it is too difficult for a developer to spin up a whole dev environment just to compile a tool, but the C extractor is a single C file that only depends on the C standard library and zlib.
This feels more like your mom likes to wash dishes by hand and you have a known good dishwasher that needs to be plugged in, but instead of plugging it in you build a new one that you tested a couple times and it seems to work but who knows? At least you saved yourself all the work of plugging in that other dishwasher?
Still a cool project to publish the source code, but the python port side quest seems pointless.