It doesn't diminish the art form though. If anything, I value these kinds of hand written projects even more now that so many people are pulled in by AI doing their projects for them in a fraction of the time and effort. I love doing these kinds of projects, and I love writing assembly, but I must admit that the temptation of just copy pasting generated code is big sometimes, because it's _right there_. In this context, seeing someone handwriting something awesome by hand is even more valuable to me.
I think the parent's point is: a couple of years ago handwriting was the only option. You'd see a post like this and know it was something special.
With LLMs, we can't tell anymore if something is a labor of love with hundreds of hours of work behind it, or half a dozen prompts to Claude Code.
Oh yeah I totally get that, and I feel the same, but the author of this project specifically says that it's hand written (first paragraph of the readme in the repo).