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The AI rebuilt a ZX81 memory dump game in Go and got every step right

Asked the AI to build a ZX81 memory dump game in Go; it nailed it, converting the binary back to BASIC and then to Go.

How it works

  1. He asks the AI to build the ZX81 memory dump game in Go
  2. The AI converts the binary back to BASIC
  3. Then to Go
  4. It nails the job

Why it’s worth knowing

Going backwards from a dump to readable code is the hard direction.

Where it’s from

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

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