There isn't any attempt to falsify the "clean room" claim in the article - a rational approach would be to not provide any documents about the Z80 and the Spectrum, and just ask it to one-shot an emulator and compare the outputs...

If the one-shot output resembles anything working (and I am betting it will), then obviously this isn't clean room at all.

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the_af 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Even without internet access, probably everything there is to say about Z80/Speccy emulators was already in its training set.

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measurablefunc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Author just trusts the agent to not use the internet b/c he wrote it so in the instructions should tell you all you need to know. It's great he managed to prompt it w/ the right specification for writing yet another emulator but I don't think he understands how LLMs actually work so most of the commentary on what's going on with the "psychology" of the LLM should be ignored.

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antirez 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You didn't read the full article. The past paragraph talks about this specifically.

	▲	tredre3 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the last paragraph you handwave that all the Z80 and ZX Spectrum documentations is likely already in the model anyway... Choosing to not provide the documents/websites might then requiring more prompting to finish the emulator, but the knowledge is there. You can't clean room with a large LLM. That's delusion!