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Nice, but NES emulator is one of the most written pet projects anywhere, which makes it considerably less impressive.
by zorked 10mo ago
Nice, but NES emulator is one of the most written pet projects anywhere, which makes it considerably less impressive.
- StilesCrisis 10mo agoHeck, when Satya Nadella wanted to demonstrate Copilot coding, he had it emit an Altair emulator. I guess there's little room for creativity in 8-bit emulator design so LLMs can handle them well. https://thenewstack.io/from-basic-to-vibes-microsofts-50-year-code-evolution/ https://thenewstack.io/from-basic-to-vibes-microsofts-50-yea...
- ldng 10mo agoAnd said emulator was opensourced and tested by third parties, right ? Until it's so, it's just hearsay to me by someone having a multi-billion horse in the race.
- noident 10mo agoSomewhere along the line the AI bros stopped separating training and testing sets. It's great for impressing the villagers
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- pragma_x 10mo agoThis is a good point. I wonder how much NES emulator code is in Claude's training set? Not to knock what the author has done here, but I wonder if this is more of a softball challenge than it looks.