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by polshaw 720 days ago
The critical part is knowing that TTF fonts can include a virtual machine.. then he pops an llm into that and replaces instances of !!!!!! with whatever the llm outputs.
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Thank you. I wasn't going to watch a video to find out how the LLM actually affects any output.
Not exactly. Harfbuzz, the font shaping library, has an optional feature to use WASM for shaping. Normal font hinting is much more restricted, precisely because Turing-complete fonts are a horrible idea.