there is no way to measure it. The source code isnt available. Better a "classic development style" closed source or a "vibe coded" but open source?

This is from the original authors of ZSNES. I think they know what they're doing.

smartassery aside LLMs are pretty shit at esoteric stuff like this. Especially retro stuff in my experience they mainly tend to get super excited about how awesome and retro it is & reiterate misunderstood factoids about it that it knows that aren't that important/that you probably know already. Like showing it to a Reddit comment section.

Funny, we now enter the era of "Made with Handcrafted Code" or "Handmade" . Same way as furniture, carpets and any other "handcrafts" are made now... or Lamborghinis

I find the specific singling out of vibe coding interesting for a different reason; thinking back to just last month, I recall one of the rationales behind the huge DLSS5 backlash was it ruined the artists original vision. And here we are a month later being amazed at an emulator that literally lets any casual player do just that through a funky point and click interface!

I guess if they added in an MCP server there would probably be a riot.

It only makes sense for hobby projects where the outcome is just an excuse for the journey. I mean if the point is to have fun coding, you want to do it yourself.

> But I wonder does this mean no AI was used at all? Even for say, code review?

Would that be surprising to you?

"no vibe coding" is different from "no ai". I'm not sure where the authors are going with this. No autocomplete? What level of autocomplete? No "deep learning"?