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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.

Having poked around in the repo a bit, it doesn't seem like they gave the LLM a lot of guidance. Really seems like they just gave it a goal and let it rip, so they might not have much of a foundation to learn how to do it the hard way. Impossible to say for sure without more info though