It wasn't really, though. Creating a Python extractor was a side-quest that supported the end goal of making the original source code available and easily accessible.

(You're going to cut yourself off from interesting content more and more with this sort of kneejerk response to anything AI related.)

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By the by, creating a Python port of something originally in C is exactly the sort of routine work that current AI models are ideally suited to. Let them do the boring work with clear goals, while humans focus on the stuff the models aren't suited to.

My mum still likes to wash her dishes by hand, but I'm happy to delegate that task to a dishwashing machine, etc.

This kind of comment is extremely detrimental to my enjoyment of HN. They show up in every post now. I wish the mods would start punishing these destructive jerks and not let this toxic behavior become the norm. It's starting to become insufferable.