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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by thaumasiotes on Saturday May 16, 2026 @05:20PM (#48163920)
> I could probably do fizzbuzz in x86 assembly

How? Fizzbuzz requires you to produce output; that's not functionality that CPU instructions provide.

You can call into existing functionality that handles it for you, but at that point what are you objecting to about the 'modern language'?

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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by rightbyte on Saturday May 16, 2026 @06:50PM (#48164458)
You'd just call printf from assembly by knowing the ABI by heart.
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Re:Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format by brookst on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:02PM (#48164552)
Well I could certainly assemble the string buffer. And if I can run dosbox, I can output to the screen buffer at 0xB800.

I’m not objecting to modern languages, I’m just saying that using them fails the “can write fizzbuzz with no help” test to only a slightly lesser degree than using AI tools. They’re a complex compile- and runtime environment that most developers don’t truly understand.

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