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The AI built me a new VPN app for my Chromecast in 20 minutes

His Chromecast would not connect to his home VPN, which uses IKEv2, while he stayed at an Airbnb, and the VPN apps he tried would not work on it. He gave the AI his certificates and the AI wrote a new VPN app for the Chromecast in about 20 minutes. He says it works perfectly.

How it works

  1. Try the existing VPN apps on the Chromecast and find they cannot make IKEv2 work
  2. Hand the AI his VPN certificates
  3. The AI writes a new VPN app for the Chromecast
  4. The app connects and works, in about 20 minutes

Why it’s worth knowing

When no app on the store could do the job, the agent just wrote him a new one, on the spot, while he was travelling.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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