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Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! (github.com)
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[-] 4am@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That was already possible. This lets the game run natively on a modern PC, as long as you supply your legally backed up rom image of your N64 cartridge of the game.

Also, if they trained AI on programming books which they licensed in perpetuity and free college courses and it became better than people at programming, then maybe vibe coding would be questionably good. But they didnt. In a system designed to exploit labor, they took the fruit of that labor without compensating those who deserved it (a crime that, as you elude to in your comment, is not socially acceptable), then they sold their snake oil which is NOT as good at the job it proposes to eliminate as the human worker, to a company which will pay for the privilege of exploiting that technology at the expense of the humans they will replace with it, while it does a worse job and generally makes life shitter for everyone in that entire supply chain, except for the Sam Altmans. Who, as we’ve seen in recent times, want to build tech bro kingdoms where they can exploit people further.

The problem isn’t the neural network, it’s the exploitation.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

Oh I see. I only took a brief glance at the code on github but it looks like the full game is there - did the devs add the cartridge check to avoid IP trouble? Because if you know what you're doing you could always disable that.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world -3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Enough with the AI moralizing. As a software developer I spent my whole career looking at examples of other people's work and incorporating their coding techniques into my own work without ever hunting any of them down and paying them. Possibly other people have done the same with my code. Bottom line, I don't care, it's always been common practice. And I don't see anything wrong with a human being writing code to automate that process - that's the whole idea of coding.

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