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It's bittersweet, isn't it. Software is solved, but at a terrible cost.
A perfect example of a coding agent guided by a human with domain knowledge.
"I does not boot and it makes me sad"

I actually write prompts like that when I'm not under pressure. Claude will sometimes completely ignore your feelings, and sometimes give a little comment, which I just find refreshing in the middle of otherwise often boring sessions. And it does not have an effect on the actual result.

I am doing a very similar thing right now, which is adding a JIT to both Basilisk and SheepShaver: https://github.com/rcarmo/macemu - on the PPC side, we're still poking at some hardware registers that the Quadra ROMs like to noodle in.
some vague hint about what the article is about before clicking on it would be.. nice.