Porting a Discord Bot to Microsoft Teams, Entirely With AI

code.dblock.org | tech blog · 4 days ago · discuss

In 2023 I ported slack-strava to Discord by hand, evening by evening over about three weeks, and it took most of that stretch to get a working bot. This week I ported the same app to Microsoft Teams as teams-strava (“Strata”), and this time I wrote almost none of the code myself. GitHub Copilot CLI did. The 2023 Baseline discord-strava’s git history is a fair record of how long a manual port takes. The first commit, “Initial fork from slack-strava,” landed July 30, 2023. “Most interactions working” was three days later. Getting install/help/error-handling polish took through August 20: 2023-07-30 23:56...