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I wrote 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry

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Ironic that your asm game engine runs at 60fps while your blog has a loading bar and lags when scrolling. I didn't bother reading it.

> loading bar

Yeah... I don't get the point of that. By checking devtools, I see that everything has already loaded.

Another thing: I question the claim that he wrote assembly himself because the GitHub repo screams AI.

Especially this MD file. No human documents stuff in that way. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ujjwalvivek/baremetal/refs...

The article itself, and the flagged comment they made on this thread, are also LLM-generated. I feel like we've been on an upwards trend of LLM-generated posts explicitly claiming "I wrote X".

I didn't get the sense that the prose was AI generated at all. How did you come to that conclusion?

From that link:

> ## WHY AUDIO WAS DROPPED

> The game is silent by design. Here is the analysis:

Is the most Claude "couldn't get audio to work for _reasons_ and pivoted away" note I have seen outside of my own bin of half-baked useless code.

It's comical too, jumpy and takes way to long.

Sure it's kinda cool as a gimmick, but it should be like 600-800ms at most if you do want one

Could he have written the assembly, but used AI for the MD file? Is there harm if that is case? Because AI is good at spitting out documentation, so why not.

Additional irony points for the fact that the URL is purportedly pointing to a '.md' file

If you click the little "vibeSwitch" text in the bottom left, then click the small toggle in the bottom right of the popup window, you can turn off the animated background, and the website runs a hell of a lot better, on my browser at least

Let me fix this for you: "I asked Claude to write 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry"

> It's a Wolfenstein-3D-style DDA (a.k.a. Digital Differential Analyzer) raycaster written entirely in x86-64 assembly (Intel syntax) that runs at a locked 60 FPS. And there is not a single line of C anywhere in the source. Sounds amazing. Right?

Not trying to be overly critical, but that sounds more like extra credit homework.

"Runs Wolf3D at 60fps" isn't an impressive claim nowadays either way. It feels like a very bizarre statement, which is probably because an LLM wrote everything here.

I wonder if his interview loop was actually as good as he thinks it was?

This shows some talent.

It saddens me when people with talent talk about 4 interview stages and still getting turned down. With no feedback? Maybe it was soft skills? What is happening in this market?

I liked how the web page loaded. Others diss it, but I think it was done on purpose as a style.

It's clear some talent is on display here, but I think it's being focused on the wrong thing. If I had to give some advice, focus on making something people want to use instead of trying to impress by making up arbitrary challenges.

Can anyone explain why OPs comment is dead?

It is LLM-generated. It's not flagged (by users), so probably caught by HN's automated spam detection.

You mean the article? I didn't get that feeling but even if that was true, this is against the rules?

Both the article and the killed comment OP made. LLM-generated articles are not against the rules, but LLM-generated comments are.

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