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A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

131 points · 130 comments · graemep

  1. jameshart · · focus · HN ↗
    It’s Claude’s earnestness that’s so disingenuous in this kind of write up. This voice Claude has where it believes the work is important and deserves to be taken seriously, and where it takes ever part of the process where it has to adjust its approach because of a thing it figured out as a great insight which is incredibly valuable and that people should be made aware of…

    I feel like vibecoded projects need Claude to pick up on a sense of ‘this is just me messing around’, and a project like this where there does appear to be genuine digging into the art of performance tuning Z80 assembly needs Claude to understand ‘this is impractical hacking for hacking’s sake not groundbreaking research’

    I don’t have a problem with projects which are, essentially ‘Claude and I burned a lot of tokens for giggles to see just how far you can push something’. But the write up needs to reflect that spirit.

    1. badsectoracula · · focus · HN ↗
      TBH even if you're messing around you may still want the code to be performant and taken seriously :-P
      1. Sharlin · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah, but it doesn't have to sound like you have invented a time machine and deserve a Nobel prize.
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