Can a LLM convert C, to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape? Yes.
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Daniel Joyce used the techniques described in this post to port
ls to rust via an objdump. You can see the code here: https://github.com/DanielJoyce/ls-rs. Keen, to see more examples - get in contact if you ship something!Damien Guard nerd sniped me and other folks wanted more proof that it is now cheap, easy and possible to cheaply rewrite software or clone existing "source available" businesses (see bottom of the post).
five months later and https://t.co/kMXyRYraBA has been productionised into a MCP server and a paper published. that took longer than expected but it was only matter of time.
— geoff (@GeoffreyHuntley) August 25, 2025
/z80 = Running the LLM like a Bitcoin mixer for intellectual property and cloning software. pic.twitter.com/dxGSP2WiFX
So, let's get cracking by creating a toy application by sending this prompt to the LLM.
