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Comment by amelius | Hacker News Reader

Why is it a problem? Sounds to me like emulation is a very good fit for AI.

I think another problem is: vibecoded emulators (like this one seems to be?) are likely to be a stunt, a cool project, but will not be maintained. Upstreaming this to qemu requires at least some human effort, and it is not very likely to happen. So we are left with a cool trick.

I can imagine some people feel like it's cheating because they did it the hard way. I have much respect for those people and their skillset and I hope AI doesn't discourage them.

Hopefully as AI coding continues to improve they’ll come to view it like chess players do Stockfish

But playing chess is a game already.

Yeah, I'm really pissed at all these car drivers doing marathons in 26 minutes because I've been working on it for years and can't get my time below 4 hrs.

Even though I used AI, it took me months to decipher parts of the emulation. I had to study, and I loved learning things I didn't know. It's also a very beautiful learning path; everything related to technology is magical. Engineers from all over the world are trying to revive the iPod and products that are no longer commercially available.

They don't normally give a reason. Just picking a few random examples

https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1wbapys/zevora_e... https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1w8b6rk/ruzu_is_... https://old.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/1vz9na6/pc_ports...

Some communities are particular about maintaining cleanroom reverse-engineering (case in point: Portal 64 getting taken down for using Nintendo's leaked N64 SDK and not the OSS libdragon SDK) and are wary of people submitting AI-generated PRs without being able to account for their sources

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