Comment by CamperBob2
3 hours ago
Here's an interesting experiment to try. Strip out the comments from your code, rename the variables to something generic, and feed it to Opus 4.5, Gemini 3, or GPT 5.2 with 'thinking' mode turned on. Ask it what the code does, and ask it to review it for possible areas of improvement.
If you don't have access to advanced reasoning models -- the kind that will crunch for 10 minutes before they give you any response at all -- put the sanitized code on pastebin and I'll try it with my accounts.
If you're right, then the models won't even recognize your code as a ray-tracer, much less be able to say anything meaningful about it.
Would have to strip a lot more than that, like every printf and function name.
https://github.com/mrvacbob/atrace
I see what you mean, I was assuming you were referring to a smaller code base.
I'm sure Paul Heckbert's business card is in-distribution, but it'd be a good example of what I'm talking about ( see variation at https://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/ ).