Comment by jhbadger
1 month ago
When people write things like this I wonder if they just haven't used AI coding agents. You don't simply write a prompt and walk away and have a complete program written when you get back. You still have to put a fair amount of effort in description often many times, not unlike the sort of work you'd have to put in if you were supervising a group of junior developers as a systems analyst. It's still work, just at a higher level. And until (and if ever) we get AGI humans will still have to do this.
> You still have to put a fair amount of effort in description often many times,
It's nowhere near "a fair amount of work". It's a fraction of a percent, if that. The reason I know this is because I am using LLMs quite deeply.
For this specific project, I'd be very surprised if the prompter needed to know anything more than:
1. Assembly exists. 2. The 8088 (and later) existed. 3. The target hardware's OSes did not support preemptive processes.
For Fable (which is what they used), it can infer the rest, with the user providing "No, that's not it, change the color" type of prompts.