in fairness to the LLM critics, every time i ran into a minor speed bump in this project, it told me it probably just wasn't possible to get it to work well. the LLM did pretty actively discourage me from trying to get the whole thing working.

that said, since i was willing to ignore that aspect of it, it did accelerate getting the work done by a lot. it seems like it understands system programming really well, and did a good job navigating the qemu codebase. i have ~20 years of systems programming experience so i already knew what had to be done here. it didn't really guide the project much, but it did write a lot of the code.

And I see that you succeeded in not doing it.

Congrats! Each one got what they wanted :).