[chrisjj]

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?

[skysanctuary]

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.

[chrisjj]

> 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?

[astlouis44]

The article was written by the CEO of Ycombinator, funnily enough.

[chrisjj]

Seriously, what makes you think that? It really looks like parrot slop to me.