Handheld hackathon drama: vibe coder ships a raytracer they can't explain, sparking debate
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-10-21
At an in-person handheld console hackathon, someone hand-wrote a raycaster; another attendee wearing an "I ❤️ slop" shirt claimed the same—but theirs was a ray tracer fully written by Claude, and they couldn't answer basic graphics questions, only talk about their prompting harness. A reply pushes back: this is just today's hello world—nobody knew what the compiler did either; if they build anything interesting, they'll learn how things work.
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