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Re:I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language by jadedtuna on Sunday April 19, 2026 @05:54PM (#47827972)
I'm not sure where the grandparent got 400k lines from. Perhaps total number of lines modified? I'm seeing about 115k lines, with 88k from sxc.ssa as you mentioned. Still 27k lines of code in <3 weeks is a lot, so it isn't terribly surprising that GP would assume AI given current day and age.

On that topic, I don't think GP was referring to that fact that you wrote the CHIP-8 emulator via AI, but rather that the Spectre compiler (the original Rust version) was written/augmented with AI.

Looking at the very first commits, after you've added the initial source code, there are a bunch of commits with many lines changes within the span of several minutes. Assuming not AI, I'm curious about that. Do you really just write code that quickly? Or was this a project not tracked by git originally, and you made a bunch of commits to set up some form of history for your recent changes?

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Re:I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language by drunken_thor on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:15AM (#47832303)
His spectre language is fully bootstrapped and written in spectre so his suggestion that you try to get an AI to write spectre stands for both the chip-8 emulator and the language itself. He is very obviously a prolific programmer with a very keen focus.
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