It demonstrated the capabilities of an AI to a potentially on-the-fence audience while giving the author experience using the new tools/environment. That's solid value. I also just find it really cool to see that an AI did this.
Yeah, it shows the AI is not capable of writing maintainable projects. I'm off the fence. And its cool you find it cool, but reducing the problem space to that of a toy project makes it so much less impressive as to be trivially ignorable.
The new LLM (pattern recognizer/matcher) is not a good tool
There are NES emulators aplenty, the only value in writing a new one is pedagogic, for the writer.
This endeavor had negative net value.
It demonstrated the capabilities of an AI to a potentially on-the-fence audience while giving the author experience using the new tools/environment. That's solid value. I also just find it really cool to see that an AI did this.
Yeah, it shows the AI is not capable of writing maintainable projects. I'm off the fence. And its cool you find it cool, but reducing the problem space to that of a toy project makes it so much less impressive as to be trivially ignorable.
The new LLM (pattern recognizer/matcher) is not a good tool
How about being entertained by the process?
They didnt call it the "Nintendo Entertainment System" for nothing.
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.
You ask what you learned building the house. The hammer hits the nails.
If it's a zillion dollar hammerbot the company is offering to your boss for pennies, that had better be your first priority!
Ask not what your hammer can do for you.
Do you like to read posts about what hammer can do? Especially when it has been done 100 times already.
I'm no carpenter, but I can honestly say I've probably read a hundred articles about vim..