The Irony of Claude Writing 25,000 Lines of Assembly

zetalyrae · x · 2026-07-18

The post highlights a stark contrast: on one hand, Claude can spit out 25,000 lines of working x86 assembly; on the other, Elon Musk once claimed future AI would directly generate executable binaries.

The quoted post provides more context: a project successfully built an X11 server from scratch using x8664 assembly, underscoring the fact that "models can now generate incredibly heavy low-level code."

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