I mean this in the nicest possible way because you were just messing around on a fun thing, but...
I feel like there's a real metaphor here. 86+ people did work over two decades to maintain a cross-platform codebase and that "definitely deserves to be commended", but what "definitely felt magical" was Claude bumbling through header tweaks from compilation errors until the project compiled. And in the end what has AI wrought? A viral video but not anything to give back to the original project. Really there are multiple layers here :)
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I mean this in the nicest possible way because you were just messing around on a fun thing, but...
I feel like there's a real metaphor here. 86+ people did work over two decades to maintain a cross-platform codebase and that "definitely deserves to be commended", but what "definitely felt magical" was Claude bumbling through header tweaks from compilation errors until the project compiled. And in the end what has AI wrought? A viral video but not anything to give back to the original project. Really there are multiple layers here :)
1M devs could have worked on it. You can neither fight bit rot nor predict the future.
The point was to get it running, not solve world peace. Without AI, the problem might not have been tackled at all.
To be fair, the topic is AI, so of course that's what he's focusing on