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Developer Compiles Working NES Emulator Into Qwen LLM Weights

Dbreunig explains Claude Opus 3.5 assisted the project with minimal prompts

1 Oct 30 1:39 PM · 13d ago · 1 article · 3 posts · 15 comments · 3 sources · development 1 of 1

In a Hacker News comment, dbreunig notes that Anthropic's Claude Opus 3.5 generated working weights and code from just two prompts referencing the Qwenputer article and asking whether an NES could be emulated using the same technique.

Dbreunig explains Claude Opus 3.5 assisted the project with minimal prompts
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“Nobody trained these weights; a compiler computed every one. When you play a game, the model predicts the CPU's execution log one token at a time.”

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