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Why does the post avoid this obvious question. Claude is impressive, but it still hallucinates a lot.

You really need to be able to build + run + verify features + compare compiled outputs; then you can be somewhat confident it really did what the author is claiming.

The other linked "oh fuck" article https://ghuntley.com/oh-fuck/ where it supposedly converts https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal at least has a linked video. As far as I can see, based on that video's file tree/Haskell files - its not exactly doing what's described in the article. I'll extrapolate from there...

No, the ouput is all hallucination. The minified version contains many prompts that can be easily found. None of them appear in the authors result. None of the code structures and identifiers of the minfied version are present. Its all BS.