alt Hacker NewsI won't deny OP learned something in this process, but I can't help but wonder: if they spent the same time and effort just porting the code themselves, how much more would they have learned?
Specially considering that the output would be essentially the same: a bunch of code that doesn't work.
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embedding-shape • yesterday at 5:27 PM
I guess it depends on well people want to know things like "Perl (and C) library to web" skills. Personally, there are languages I don't want to learn, but for one reason or another, I have to change some details in a project that happen to use that language. Sure, I could sit down and learn enough of the language so I can do the thing, but if I don't like or want to use that language, the knowledge will eventually atrophy anyways, so why bother?
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That may be true, but it does seem like OP's intent was to learn something about how LLM agents perform on complex engineering tasks, rather than learning about ASCII creation logic. A different but perhaps still worthy experiment.