Why not use the LLM for more meaningful commit titles & messages as well while you are at it?

Surprised there's no README file at all.

Probably better to look at a human-authored emulator if you want comments containing accurate information anyway.

Forbidding LLM to write comments and docstrings (preferrably enforced by build and commit hook) is one of the best "hacks" for using that thing. LLM cannot help itself but emit poisonous comments.

If you let it, Claude Code will write a comment for almost every single line of code.

    # Assign value of x to y
    y = x

This is the comment.

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.

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...

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

Indeed, that's what I kind of hinted at in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442195 and coincidentally https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437688 briefly after, namely that OK, one can "generate" a "solution", that's much easier than before... but until we can verify somehow that it actually does what it say it does (and we know of hallucinations and have no reason to believe this changed) then testing itself, especially of well know "problems" is more and more important.

That being said, it doesn't answer the "why" in the first place, an even more important question. At least though it does help somehow to compare with existing alternatives.

I’m sure you can point Claude at that page and have it make the necessary changes to pass.

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