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This sounds great, if i could trust it to get it right 100% of the time.

• simonw 2y ago
  With the right harness around it you could trust it. Set it up so that it takes your input, generates the cron expression, then uses a deterministic cron library to spit out a summary of what that expression does plus a list of next upcoming instances. That should give you all the information you need to determine if it got the right expression.
  • encoderer 2y ago
    You think it would work to just pipe that description and next occurrences and ask an llm if it matches the intended prompt?
    • simonw 2y ago
      No, that still leaves a small probability of something weird happening - and since it's a small probability you might not ever spot it in your own testing. In this case I think it's better to run known, deterministic code that can turn a crontab into a clear explanation.
  • krupan 2y ago
    Wow. The things people will do to avoid learning cron syntax