I just got a commodore 64 ultimate last week to play with my son but also nerd out on - the more I use ai at work, the more I miss the pleasure of hand coding and fully owning / understanding a piece of hardware. I wrote my first BASIC program in 35 years last weekend, a version of wordle for his birthday with special birthday cake PETSCII art if his name is entered. I never really geeked put about hardware at such physical / electrical level, so this'll be fun to play with :).

There's so much AI slop everywhere, including c64 community now, but gems like this also come out so I suppose / hope it balances.

LLMs make this kind of development really approachable.

What is fascinating is I can now build components that work through an Arduino to interface with real accessories and C64s.