AI ported SimCity to TypeScript in 4 days without reading the code
garryslist.orgFrom the post:
“Think about what this means … the original SimCity ran on a Commodore 64. An empty Chrome tab takes more memory than that entire machine had. We’re not constrained by hardware anymore. We’re not even constrained by understanding what the code does … codebases will 10-100x in size because AI … endless bugs … the question is whether you’re building with it or explaining why you’re not.”
Looking through the eyes of an AI champion, I see a world where the first execution of any given idea, the first product to hit the market for any given need, is guaranteed to be AI-generated - with the “10-100x size” codebase, the corresponding (and often superlinear) decrease in performance, and the attendant “endless bugs”.
This resonates so much with Wirth's law : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
> We’re not even constrained by understanding what the code does …
Key point. We can release this game, have it breach your browser, pwn your machine and rat you to ICE.
> AI ported SimCity to TypeScript in 4 days without reading the code
And we are expected to believe this with just a picture.
Is the guy preparing for Mid-term elections and looking at ways to better lie its voters ?
> And we are expected to believe this with just a picture.
Some people are. I doubt we are.
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.
> No code reading.
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.
> I think he meant Christopher didn't read any of the original code himself. The AI certainly ingested it.
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.