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Developer ports NES Contra to WebAssembly with AI-assisted C rewrite

Commenter warns AI restrictions could curb such hobby ports

4 Oct 31 10:43 PM · 11d ago · 2 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 5

A commenter expresses concern that moves by Anthropic (and potentially other AI providers) to restrict certain usage could make labor-of-love hacker projects like this port less common going forward.

“I'm a bit concerned that cool labor of love hacker projects like this will become much less common now that Anthropic (and possibly soon others) is moving to restrict this kind of usage.”

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tevlon Developer who built the WebAssembly Contra portvermiceli Original author of the annotated Contra disassembly

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