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An LLM got his 1991 game compiling again when he no longer knew how

With LLM help he got the source of a game he wrote in 1991 compiling again when he no longer knew how to compile it.

How it works

  1. He no longer knows how to compile his own 1991 source
  2. The LLM works it out with him
  3. The game compiles again

Why it’s worth knowing

He wrote it and still could not build it; the toolchain knowledge was the lost part.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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