Claude wrote and trained a language model small enough to fit on a floppy disk
Background-Wafer-548 · reddit · 2026-11-15
A Reddit user had Claude end-to-end write the code and train a tiny language model small enough to fit on a floppy disk, running it on a vintage DOS laptop. Video shows the model actually working on the retro hardware.
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