Comment by keyle

7 hours ago

Who care what it did. What did you learn? To live is to learn.

When I consider the utility of a hammer, my first priority is to ask what the hammer can teach me.

  • There are NES emulators aplenty, the only value in writing a new one is pedagogic, for the writer.

    This endeavor had negative net value.

  • Do you think that the use of a hammer is an innate skill, and that woodworkers learn nothing from their craft?

    • Okay, so let's say the use of a coding agent isn't an innate skill, so the author was gaining experience with the tool.

  • If it's a zillion dollar hammerbot the company is offering to your boss for pennies, that had better be your first priority!

  • Do you like to read posts about what hammer can do? Especially when it has been done 100 times already.

Yeah I think this is the wrong approach. If they were making money out of it, that would be different. But this is pointless.

Is this why you only wrote in machine code until you fully understood the entire compiler front end, back end chain?