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A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

131 points · 130 comments · graemep

  1. j4cobgarby · · focus · HN ↗
    It _does_ look really cool, genuinely, but calling it a "labour of love" and then having AI write the readme/docs seems conflicting.
    1. ghusto · · focus · HN ↗
      Why do you say it's written by AI?
      1. flohofwoe · · focus · HN ↗
        Not the parent, but it reads a lot like written by AI. It has that typical breathless style that's exhausting just from reading.

        Also, looking at the code, the whole project looks vibe coded, no human would write such comments. Everything in a single git commit also looks "suspicious". It's cool that LLMs can write Z80 asm now, but yeah "labour of love"... tsk tsk tsk...

        1. kejdjejxjejdj · · focus · HN ↗
          > but yeah "labour of love"... tsk tsk tsk...

          What precludes this from being a labour of love, exactly?

          1. jameshart · · focus · HN ↗
            I think some people prefer their labours of love to involve the expenditure of actual labour.
            1. kejdjejxjejdj · · focus · HN ↗
              So planning, debugging, speccing, thinking, rethinking, designing, etc… do not count as labour?

              Please, do give me a list of what constitutes labour.

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