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Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum by derac on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:58AM (#49767613)
AI assisted or not, you have no idea how much of his personal effort went into the project.
Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum by mzi on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:23PM (#49767832)
Nothing else than a bit of prompting went in to this.
Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum by exe34 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:18PM (#49769795)
This sounds like you have only had a superficial contact with LLMs. They do a lot of mechanical work, but "a bit of prompting" is not how they are used for something like this.
Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum by jameshart on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:41PM (#49768006)
If you’re familiar with the way in which documentation artifacts like this fall out of a Claude project, you will recognize that every place where Claude says ‘this changes everything’ or ‘this is the load bearing insight’ most likely resulted from a human looking at what Claude had done, and redirecting it towards a more fruitful line of inquiry. When Claude gets ‘excited’ about a thing like ‘we figured out which clock measurement approach helps us actually optimize performance’ - excited enough to explain it in this level of detail - it usually results from the user pulling Claude out of a rabbit hole where it was going about things the wrong way.
Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum by kejdjejxjejdj on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:34PM (#49768517)
I think you severely lack in domain knowledge if you think “nothing else than a bit of prompting went in to this”.
Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum by alt227 on Saturday September 19, 2026 @01:26PM (#49768440)
"A bit of prompting" is subjective, and can indeed take a lot of work to craft accurate prompts which produce genuinely useful output.
Re:A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum by grugagag on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:29PM (#49767890)
How about the desire to steer LLMs to a point of their choosing? LLMs wouldn't do this by themselves...