ChatGPT struck the world on November 30th, 2022 and was an eye opener. It is a stunning… tool? thing? I don’t know, I’m pretty much in awe of what it does at this point and watching the tech community poke and prod it has been pretty enlightening. Where I got REALLY curious was as I noticed people requesting that ChatGPT reverse engineer code, develop malware, and what really struck a nerve with me, generate CloudFormation and Terraform code.

what is this and why? I work in private VPCs in AWS a lot. I’m testing, debugging, and fidgeting with instances, requiring SSH access. If DNS isn’t configured, I’ve then had to look up IP addresses for instances through the AWS console (or just memorize the IP). After that, there’s the SSH public host key fingerprint. I either blindly accept it or manually look it up. If I terminate and redeploy the instance, there’s a chance I’ll get that SSH WARNING!