I wanted to give Windsurf another opportunity to make an actual code change. This time, I’m adding a new feature to the sso tool to print out the OAuth bearer token. I started with the prompt “Add a new subcommand called token to the sso tool. The token command should print out the current OAuth2 bearer token.”
A few years ago I built a custom OAuth2/IndieAuth provider for my website and a few other things. In the same crate I had a small utility to fetch credentials using the OAuth2 device flow and then pass them into curl. It’s been really helpful for testing and I’ve been meaning to extract it out into its own package so that I can install it independently. The tool doesn’t depend on anything else in the crate, so this seemed like a simple enough task to see how Windsurf worked across packages.
I had some free time while waiting for a flight this week, so I finally gave Windsurf, one of the AI-first IDEs a chance. I had a bug in the image resizing function for my website: by design, the EXIF metadata is stripped from the resized images. However, the orientation transform wasn’t applied first. As a result, pictures from my phone often appeared sideways. I figured this was a good first task to throw at Windsurf.