Youtube Comments Chrome Extension
I was curious about the engagement that content creators get on their YouTube channels. As a viewer too, I enjoy reading the comments because you can get a lot of good information from them.
YouTube does not always show the most liked comments. They have their own algorithm to determine which comments to show at the top.
Another curiosity I had was to create a Chrome Extension. I don’t know React, and I had not worked in JavaScript, but with the help of Claude, I wanted to see how far and quickly I could get this done.
Google has a really good examples folder in their chrome extension documentation. I read through the examples to understand the structure of the project.
Since my Chrome extension didn’t alter the behavior or add any features to the webpage, I could just get started with the simple example and extend it as I needed.
It took me close to a week to get the extension working, but this was another example of how quickly something decent can be built with AI.
It was my first real output experience with AI, and I found that it will produce ultra-complex code if you give it too big a task. Giving Claude specific files and exact changes needed in each file produced a much better result.
The same goes for debugging. If I gave it information like “X didn’t work”, I would sit there and watch it rewrite so many parts of the code. It might fix the problem, but it would introduce complexity.
I didn’t publish this extension, but I have been using it for a while now, and I can foresee a future of personal software.
Exciting times ahead!
