[keepamovin]

By hand or with AI? Fascinating. So much work! What was your motivation for this?

[neocanable]

90% by hand, 10% AI. I do this for fun and to learn about jvm.

[jebarker]

I think that sort of ratio is the sweet spot for learning. I've been writing an 8086 simulator in C++ and using an LLM for answering specific technical questions I come up with has drastically sped up my progress without it actually doing the work for me.

[keepamovin]

Wow, impressive. A project of the scale and depth.

[xandrius]

Irrelevant to me. People would never ask whether someone has created something looking at SO or not. If the thing works as advertised, good for them!

[lyxell]

To some people the process leading to a finished project is the most interesting thing about posts like these.

[johnisgood]

LLMs can explain the process, and you can build projects with LLMs explaining the process.

[nticompass]

LLMs can attempt to explain the code, but it can't explain people's thought process and that's the interesting part.

I want to hear about the reverse engineering, how you thought the code through. LLMs are boring.

[johnisgood]

They can, if you write down your thought process, which is probably what you should do when you are using an LLM to create a product, but what do I know.

[Ghoelian]

> They can, if you write down your thought process

Just write a blogpost at that point.

[ryan93]

That is not true

[zerr]

It's not about explaining the process but experiencing it.

[johnisgood]

Well, they can experience it if they wish to. Sadly most vibe-coders do not.

[shortrounddev2]

LLM output is simply not interesting

[johnisgood]

I did not say that you should copy paste its output verbatim. I thought this was obvious.

Additionally, "interesting" is highly subjective. It could be technically correct, yet uninteresting.

[Bjartr]

A great question to ask. We're in the middle of learning where AI can and can't be effective. Knowing where and how it's being used is quite useful.