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this is almost all of the code in touchHLE that i wrote
(quoting https://x.com/kuberdenis/status/1842204423474274619)
ok seriously
how many of you are coding with no stack overflow / blog posts / llm; only official documentation?
be honest
if touchHLE and my MIDI adventures have anything in common it's that i've been reading so much official documentation that i start to know it like the back of my hand
i think they gave me literacy in school so i could read high literature. instead i spend it all reading 15-year-old apple documentation and 30-year-old roland and yamaha documentation
you see… when you tread new ground, there is no tutorial out there for how to do what you want to do, and the llm will not understand you. your only weapons are your brain and your hands
@hikari@social.noyu.me Is that not high literature, classics even? ​
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@hikari@social.noyu.me You are blessed with official documentation.
You don't need to read random blog posts, code comments, or reverse-engineer code or hardware. ​​
@usagi yeah, we're very lucky to be reimplementing something with a public SDK and very clean ABI. we do have to reverse-engineer stuff sometimes but not that often