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Feels like every time I see a neat retro Sega project these days, once I look under the hood it's obvious it's AI generated. Latest example is a port of emuTOS to Mega CD. Not disclosed, but a quick look at PLAN.md in the repo makes it fairly obvious

I had to go look. I really don't get why someone would use an LLM to make something ultimately useless like this. This probably cost hundreds of dollars in tokens to get to this state, and it really doesn't do anything useful. This is the kind of thing you do for the hell of it/to say you did.

I think if someone can wrangle an LLM to do something like this, they probably could have done it themselves and learned something or had a good time. I just don't get the point.

I do agree that it's hard to understand the motivation for this sort of project though. For a development tool or even a game, I can understand being more worried about the destination than the journey, but not this. As you say porting an OS to the MCD is really only useful for bragging rights