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zorkedtoday at 2:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

Nice, but NES emulator is one of the most written pet projects anywhere, which makes it considerably less impressive.


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StilesCrisistoday at 2:17 PM

Heck, 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-yea...

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pragma_xtoday at 5:21 PM

This 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.

noidenttoday at 2:53 PM

Somewhere along the line the AI bros stopped separating training and testing sets. It's great for impressing the villagers