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by Nurysso3 hours ago |
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upvoteby Retr0id3 hours ago|
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They opened their AI agent and typed "make me a 16-bit computer built from NAND gates" and hit enter.
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upvoteby phoghed3 hours ago|
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Go ahead and paste that into your coding harness of choice and see if you get this out.
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upvoteby Retr0id3 hours ago|
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It'd take a few extra sentences to get the details, but I'm confident enough that it would work that I'd rather save my tokens for something more personally interesting.
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upvoteby retrac3 minutes ago|
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I have a hobby project I'm working on - little telephone exchange design. And now that it occurs to me - I would like to visualize it in the rack form it would have if built. I really am at a loss how to prompt Claude for that. I've previously tried producing SVG diagrams with mediocre results.

I'm just a few sentences of a prompt away from a 3D visualization of the rack with the cables etc.? I guess I never did have the flair for visual design.

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upvoteby phoghed3 hours ago|
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4 sentences huh? I think I’m going to remain a doubter.
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upvoteby ktm5j1 hours ago|
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Sometimes people disagree, don't take it personally. You might be right and they're wrong, but even still you don't have to blow up about it. That's why you got flagged.
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upvoteby Retr0id3 hours ago|
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I'm sincerely curious, when was the last time you tried agentic coding?
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upvoteby phoghed2 hours ago|
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upvoteby phoghed2 hours ago|
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upvoteby socializer3 hours ago|
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Yes, the secret ingredient of these kinds of AI projects is being rich and spending an ungodly amount of money on it.

I kinda get it as a tech demo, but projects like this leave a bad taste in my mouth because I'm not sure what they're really supposed to accomplish for the author or the community. It's probably not something the person was genuinely interested in, it has no commercial or educational value, so it just... sucks the air out of a hobby? There are quite a few people who designed and built their own computers from discrete gates, and we're sharing this page instead.

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upvoteby btilly3 hours ago|
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It has long been known that you can build any gate from NAND gates.

So you can take an existing model of a computer, turn everything that isn't a NAND into a collection of NAND gates, then run software for the original computer.

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upvoteby moosedev3 hours ago|
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They don’t. Not any more.
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