Comment by beernet
5 hours ago
Can you point me to a human written program an LLM cannot write? And no, just answering with a massively large codebase does not count because this issue is temporary.
Some people just hate progress.
5 hours ago
Can you point me to a human written program an LLM cannot write? And no, just answering with a massively large codebase does not count because this issue is temporary.
Some people just hate progress.
> Can you point me to a human written program an LLM cannot write?
Sure:
"The resulting compiler has nearly reached the limits of Opus’s abilities. I tried (hard!) to fix several of the above limitations but wasn’t fully successful. New features and bugfixes frequently broke existing functionality.
As one particularly challenging example, Opus was unable to implement a 16-bit x86 code generator needed to boot into 16-bit real mode. While the compiler can output correct 16-bit x86 via the 66/67 opcode prefixes, the resulting compiled output is over 60kb, far exceeding the 32k code limit enforced by Linux. Instead, Claude simply cheats here and calls out to GCC for this phase (This is only the case for x86. For ARM or RISC-V, Claude’s compiler can compile completely by itself.)"[1]
1. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler
Pretty much any software that people pay for? If LLMs could clone an app, why would anyone still pay good money for the original?
Even a normal website like landonorris.com. Try copying all those effects with AI.
Another example: Red Dead Redemption 2
Another one: Roller coaster tycoon
Another one: ShaderToy
I wish I could agree with you, but as a game dev, shader author, and occasional asm hacker, I still think AIs have demonstrated being perfectly capable of copying "those effects". It's been trained on them, of course.
You're not gonna one-shot RD2, but neither will a human. You can one-shot particles and shader passes though.
I didnt say one shot it, coding agents have been out for more than couple years and yet we cant point to single Good piece of software built by it.
Why do you believe an LLM can't write these, just because they're 3D? If the assets are given (just as with a human game programmer, who has artists provide them the assets), then an LLM can write the code just the same.
What? People can easily get assets, thats not a even a problem in 2026. Roller coaster tycoon's assets were done by the programmer himself. If its so easy why haven't we seen actually complex pieces of software done in couple of weeks by LLM users?
Also try building any complex effects by prompting LLMs, you wont get any far, this is why all of the LLM coded websites look stupidly bland.
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And some people clearly hate humans.