Comment by bitwize

Claude Code isn't smart in its own right. LLM "intelligence" is really just other people's intelligence ground up into a thought-slurry and piped through your PC. The irony is, things like emulators for popular systems are absurdly good targets for LLMs because they've been done so many times before that there's lots of training data for such a thing to draw from—but an emulator is also the sort of project which, because it's been done so many times before, the biggest benefit a programmer will get from writing a new one is the learning experience of doing it on their own.