Let’s learn about PEPE: New Etherscan tool uses OpenAI to read smart contracts
Want to learn about Ethereum smart contract functionality, but have little to no developer experience? There’s a decentralized app for that. Etherscan, the preeminent block explorer and analytics platform for Ethereum, is beta testing a new feature — called Code Reader — a tool that makes it easy to query OpenAI’s large language model (LLM) to research solidity smart contracts. Just as the recent Advanced Filter makes it easier to research transaction information history, Code Reader provides an intuitive way for non-developers to learn about how specific smart contracts function. Etherscan stresses that the answers are coming from OpenAI’s LLM, not Etherscan itself, and that while the tool is known to have useful applications in writing and parsing code, it shouldn’t be relied upon in a vacuum. Professional auditing firms are already finding it offers a useful productivity boost, such as Michael Lewellen, a security solutions architect at OpenZeppelin. “I’ve actually found it...