@gustav@merveilles.town It's a good question – if someone had come to me and said "I'll implement a rough draft of the x86-64 backend for $35", I'm not sure how I would have reacted. And there's also the question of whether the vibes be different if I did this experiment with a local model, instead of paying Anthropic? I care about the craft of programming and quality of the resulting code, which is why I spent days rewriting the initial implementation (git shows 924 insertions(+), 1504 deletions(-) on a 2351-line file), but I wouldn't have gotten started without the AI boost – too much else on my plate, and the barrier to getting started was high...