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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2023 DecemberEridrus

About whether GPT-4 is useful for writing AWS IAM policies, under an IAM tool launch.

I guess I did not try to deal with anything key related, so that's probably why it was simpler for me.

I do agree that everything about it is horrific, though I'd be surprised and impressed if an LLM were able to generate your key setup from scratch.

An LLM generates a working AWS IAM policy with bucket- and key-level rules from scratch.

Has this happened?

Yes 73 (59%)Not sure 42 (34%)No 8 (7%)

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