I've read the article and found nothing to substantiate "without reading the code".
But then, I suspect the article is AI slop. Take this:
Christopher Ehrlich just did something that would have taken a team of engineers months. He pointed OpenAI’s 5.3-codex at the entire SimCity (1989) C codebase and let it run.
No, that wouldn't have taken engineers months.
Four days later: the game works in the browser.
So someome used a (very slow) program to translate a program.
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I've read the article and found nothing to substantiate "without reading the code".
But then, I suspect the article is AI slop. Take this:
No, that wouldn't have taken engineers months.
So someome used a (very slow) program to translate a program.
What?? Osmosis, then?
It's a bad title.
I think he meant Christopher didn't read any of the original code himself. The AI certainly ingested it.
Though, there is this part:
"Ehrlich wrote a bridge that could call the original C code, then ran property-based tests asserting his TypeScript port performed identically."
So, he must have had some kind of awareness of how the code worked.
Human fed code he didn't read to a program.
Not really news, is it?
The article was written by the CEO of Ycombinator, funnily enough.
Seriously, what makes you think that? It really looks like parrot slop to me.