I've read the article and found nothing to substantiate "without reading the code".
But then, I suspect the article is AI slop. Take this:
> Christopher Ehrlich just did something that would have taken a team of engineers months. He pointed OpenAI’s 5.3-codex at the entire SimCity (1989) C codebase and let it run.
No, that wouldn't have taken engineers months.
> Four days later: the game works in the browser.
So someome used a (very slow) program to translate a program.
> No code reading.
What?? Osmosis, then?
astlouis44•59m ago
The article was written by the CEO of Ycombinator, funnily enough.
chrisjj•1h ago
But then, I suspect the article is AI slop. Take this:
> Christopher Ehrlich just did something that would have taken a team of engineers months. He pointed OpenAI’s 5.3-codex at the entire SimCity (1989) C codebase and let it run.
No, that wouldn't have taken engineers months.
> Four days later: the game works in the browser.
So someome used a (very slow) program to translate a program.
> No code reading.
What?? Osmosis, then?
astlouis44•59m ago