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points by cynicalkane 4 days ago | 0 comments

Look, I'm gonna say what's been said a lot of times, but bears repeating: when the very first two or three sentences I read are mind-blanketing AI prose breathlessly em-dashing together fragments of stuff I don't care about, it makes me skeptical that there's value perusing the rest of the project. Like, you can't even be bothered to make your lede some form of human-to-human communication.

[–] ryan_n 4 days ago

In the "Read On" section at the bottom it says "Author's notes: The one page written by a human." Seems they're pretty open about everything being written with Claude.

[–] coffeesoda 4 days ago

Appreciate it, but the info is there for anyone (or their LLM) to learn about the project in a technical sense. Like others have kindly stated, my notes (written by a human, for humans) are in a separate section.

The technical notes are dense and interesting in their own right, but I don't expect anyone not already familiar with the N64 to 3DS port scene to care.

[–] testernews 4 days ago

this is why i don’t post anything here anymore...

[–] autoexec 4 days ago

If what you'd post are pages of obnoxious AI generated text that you yourself couldn't even be bothered to think/write about in the first place, then thank you for your restraint. A topic you think is worth your time to post about with your own words, sharing your thoughts, in your own voice could be interesting and worth our time too, but that's also not something you can just copy out of a chat bot.

[–] echelon 4 days ago

This is not cool.

Do you not see what you're doing? How do you know they don't think about things? You're attacking with unfounded accusations, and it's incredibly uncivil.

Why are you in this AI thread spewing hate?

Think about it a second.

This is an AI thread.

You do not have to be here.

[–] jonhohle 3 days ago

This was a thread supposedly about a port of an N64 game to 3DS. It turned out that it’s just something LLM was told to do. Not interesting.

[–] desterothx 3 days ago

Ok, for future reference, the next couple months you see any port, you can be 99% sure it was done by ai given the recent REA news. So if you don't want to see ai posts, avoid the port posts

[–] opan 4 days ago

All your stuff is vibecoded these days? Or is this a general complaint about negativity in the comments?

[–] regularfry 4 days ago

Not the GP but the experience of being on the wrong end of a vociferous false positive is not great, and there are enough readers to make that not an unlikely outcome.

[–] TuxSH 4 days ago

Yeah and some of the article wasn't proofread (by himself or a clanker) and the project is missing some of the due dilligence.

One striking example is "No debugger, no stdout" which is baffling considering I implemented a GDB stub in the very first version of Rosalina which I released like... 10 years ago?

Stdout redirection is supported by both 3dslink and GDB stuff on 3ds, too.

I don't mean to be a party pooper - and the projects fullfills its role as a showcase of how far pure vibecoding can take someone - but it's this can of thing that gives the "absolutely no AI" crowd grounds to stand on.

[–] jonhohle 3 days ago

“Author” seems to be doing a lot of work. Probably not the right word to use for LLM wrangler.

[–] orangedog 3 days ago

You're coming across as rather unkind in this thread and it does the project that you mentioned that you are working on a disservice.

[–] jonhohle 3 days ago

Did the poster “write” this? What does the word author mean to you?

[–] orangedog 3 days ago

The poster referred to themselves as the author. They created it, which is good enough for me.