It demonstrated the capabilities of an AI to a potentially on-the-fence audience while giving the author experience using the new tools/environment. That's solid value. I also just find it really cool to see that an AI did this.
Yeah, it shows the AI is not capable of writing maintainable projects. I'm off the fence. And its cool you find it cool, but reducing the problem space to that of a toy project makes it so much less impressive as to be trivially ignorable.
The new LLM (pattern recognizer/matcher) is not a good tool
When I consider the utility of a hammer, my first priority is to ask what the hammer can teach me.
There are NES emulators aplenty, the only value in writing a new one is pedagogic, for the writer.
This endeavor had negative net value.
It demonstrated the capabilities of an AI to a potentially on-the-fence audience while giving the author experience using the new tools/environment. That's solid value. I also just find it really cool to see that an AI did this.
Yeah, it shows the AI is not capable of writing maintainable projects. I'm off the fence. And its cool you find it cool, but reducing the problem space to that of a toy project makes it so much less impressive as to be trivially ignorable.
The new LLM (pattern recognizer/matcher) is not a good tool
How about being entertained by the process?
They didnt call it the "Nintendo Entertainment System" for nothing.
Do you think that the use of a hammer is an innate skill, and that woodworkers learn nothing from their craft?
Okay, so let's say the use of a coding agent isn't an innate skill, so the author was gaining experience with the tool.
Ask not what your hammer can do for you.
If it's a zillion dollar hammerbot the company is offering to your boss for pennies, that had better be your first priority!
Do you like to read posts about what hammer can do? Especially when it has been done 100 times already.
I'm no carpenter, but I can honestly say I've probably read a hundred articles about vim..
You ask what you learned building the house. The hammer hits the nails.
Is there zero skill in managing agents?
Yeah I think this is the wrong approach. If they were making money out of it, that would be different. But this is pointless.
Is this why you only wrote in machine code until you fully understood the entire compiler front end, back end chain?
I learned claude can write a functional NES emulator. I wonder what else it can do?
to live is to build
to build what you don't understand is to suffer in future
Except OP isn't learning or building. He's telling a computer to do the work for him and padding his resume.
How cynical. Just seeing if the current crop of automation systems can do it can be interesting enough for some of us.
It's a waste of time and energy, and when you're older you'll realize energy is the premium here.
A simple git clone is faster.
So is drinking a sip of water, but neither show what an agentic system can cook up.