I think 'standing on the shoulders of giants' is the phrase for something like this. It's the confluence of browser rendering, WASM, Rust, and LLMs. For me it's less a demo of what AI can do, and more a showcase of the human effort from the past few decades on the parts that needed to fall into place for an LLM to come in at the (relatively speaking) last second and claim a win. Sure, an LLM did the port from C to Rust, but think of all the things needed for it to all work. That's pretty damn amazing, and it wasn't done with AI.
I wholeheartedly bless this slop.
Found the repo in the Reddit post:
https://github.com/terrapapagalli1516/quake-srp
https://www.reddit.com/r/quake/comments/1x1ch14/quake_srp_sl...
Just the cherry on top of great demonstration of our collective new superpower: asking computers to do something we can describe how to do, but would (probably) never take the time to do ourselves.
[0] https://github.com/terrapapagalli1516/quake-srp/tree/main/or...
There are so many more degrees of freedom, which I can see Claude handled... mipmaps, subtle differences in lighting/positioning/compositing etc.
It's also partly why some people preferred snapshot tests that compared the DOM tree instead, though that was brittle in other ways (e.g. tests would break if an application's frontend used a major UI library and an update to the library permuted the order of classes in some part of the HTML).
You can play Half Life right now, with one click.
Fucking missed it.
I don't see any need for this. Rust is brilliant but the Quake C++ code was already more or less bug-free.
It would have been impressive before LLMs, but now? Who cares? Why is this here?
What this exploits is the mental shortcut of "rust = good", which might be a good thing, as that was always wrong. But now it is being pushed to its breaking point so that that idea will eventually collapse.
Accelerationalism on a micro scale, basically.
AI keeps breaking things that were broken before like this constantly. It's the great cleanup of old bullshit. (Unfortunately through even more bullshit, but at least there is a silver lining)
But "this" has been shapeshifting somewhat constantly. We're dynamically crossfading from one dysfunction being blown up to the next.
I like these
Quake in Flash player from 2009 I think
How long before the same thing is done to like, banking back ends? Wallstreet proprietary software? Amazons logistics and distribution systems?
It seems like we might be weeks/days/hours before a situation where someone back engineers and spoofs a system so pivotal to modern human society that the plug needs to be pulled.
Alternatively, you just act as a middleman drop shipper and slightly raise the price more than Amazon’s and skim the difference. It might be a while before they find out.
Currently a plague in some European countries.
It looks like the real site, and you pay twice, in the fake app, and later the police.
Obviously you need to have access to the keys, BUT I don't see this as a dealbreaker anymore because you just get your agents to go and find them.
The plug being "the cloud" and "hooking everything up to the same internet".
These confusion attacks can only confuse people, because critical systems can exist in the same space where entertainment systems and all other categories of systems live. This was wrong even before LLMs.
Because I did and it's the playable allegory of the cave but in vibecoded rust.
As a proof of concept however it shows that we are at the stage where any malicious actor has a very low barrier to entry to cause large scale corporate espionage etc.
From what I understand, the adobe guys software is not great.
Consequently it’s missing tons of features.
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shoobiedoo•29m ago
.... /s, if it needed to be said
vintermann•23m ago