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Give it copy paste / translate tasks and it’s a no brainer (quite literally)
But same can be said of humans.
The question here is, did it implement it because it read the available online documentation about the NES architecture OR did it just see one too many of such implementations.
> But same can be said of humans.
Indeed, the 'cleanroom' standard always was one team does the RE and writes a spec, another team that has never seen the original (and has written statements with penalty clauses to prove it) then does the re-implementation. If you were to read the implementation, write the spec and then write the re-implementation that would be definitely violating the standard for claiming an original work.