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And LLMs are still confidently bullshitting:

> Everything after that is the interface you remember from a 1984 Macintosh: […] and a dock along the bottom with one tile per running program.

In that case I look forward to seeing OS X’s Aqua ported to the IBM PS/2.

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In that case I look forward to seeing OS X’s Aqua ported to the IBM PS/2.

If this project is any indication, AI can definitely make that happen too.

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From the landing page:

> 66,183 lines of hand-written real-mode assembly

Goes to the github - contributers jggonz and CLAUDE. The README.md doubles down on this at the bottom with the license.

> Everything here is hand-written; no third-party code is vendored into the OS, so the whole tree is covered by that one license.

That's what happens when you let an LLM write your ad-copy...

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It can't be written by LLM -- the human author has claimed copyright

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49203613

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I’ve got nothing against AI-written code

But if people are going to post it on HN, they should consider at least writing the README / main page of their website by hand

It is nice to hear the human authorial voice, at least sometimes

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I'm surprised Claude is actually decent at real-mode Asm, but maybe there was a lot of attempts and guidance by the human.
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Ive been throwing z80, 6502, 68000, 8086, i386 and x86_64 asm at it lately. Haven't seen it get stuck on any of them.
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Do you think the low-level nature of ASM contribute to how successful the LLMs are with it?
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The assembly really, really hurts to read.
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