I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5hrs

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/

by simonw • 7 months ago

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julienba• 7 months ago

Great writing as usual.

I'm looking forward to having some community guidelines emerging for this kind of creation. In this case, the library works probably well enough to be used due to the extensive external suite, but in general, these LLM build projects look great until you start to use them in a real application. Now it's easy to spot them by looking at the LLM hint in the code, the LLM looking documentation, and low engagement on GitHub, but in the future, this will not be so easy.

I will be curious to see some statistics from GitHub on how many of these projects are online and how many gain community engagement.

EmilStenstrom• 7 months ago

These projects are no different from other random hobby-projects that pop up that weren't LLM-coded. The community will decide if they are useful or not.

The difference here might be speed, that there are many more projects like this.

piker• 7 months ago

The difference here might be speed, that there are many more projects like this.

This is a big difference.

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5hrs

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