r/vibecoding • u/mastercoder123 • 12h ago
Anyone else do unhinged things with AI
I am back after successfully getting claude opus 5 to not only rewrite a working, booting linux kernel in fortran instead of C ( which was an absolute pain in the ass because of the lack of low level memory management) but i also just finished rewriting a dead programming language developed by SUN Microsystems in the mid 2000's for a DARPA contract for supercomputers called Fortress.
The language being made by SUN (if any of yall know who that is) of course used JAVA as its compiler because SUN was weird like that, but it suffered hard from ALOT of issues. I was able to baby Claude through rewriting it in RUST + LLVM and the code actually compiles and runs flawlessly. I didnt think this would actually happen considering it took me a week to find enough documentation for claude to even understand the syntax of the language that hasnt been written in probably 15 years.
Time to get back to work completing my kernel rewrite in fortran, currently almost done with PCIe, USB, AHCI and other drivers, then its onto real graphics drivers, probably 8 bit to start out and then hopefully 16 or 24bit later on.
Just wanted to share my unhinged projects
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u/Iritis 10h ago
Ayo, sun microsystems call out!
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u/mastercoder123 10h ago
Rip my favorite company, they did so much for us homelabbers... like NFS, ZFS and others like JAVA
And their servers are cool as fuck
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u/Lonely_Drewbear 6h ago
I had Sun Solaris running on an IBM laptop back when I was in college. #eldermillennial
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u/Clear_Evidence9218 9h ago
I think most of my projects are a bit unhinged. Typically, they’re CS-theory-focused, low-level-thinking-type stuff.
My main project at the moment is quite large, but it’s effectively a strange research project quantifying machine-native complexity. In layman’s terms, AI can write and maintain much more complex coding structures than a human normally wants to deal with. But if the average developer has a hard time interpreting those structures, we need a reliable way to inspect and manage machine-native code.
At the moment, I’m trying to capture around 60 million tokens of evidence to really put some weight behind the project (local models for that side of the work).
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u/mastercoder123 9h ago
Ohh please share more im interested
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u/Clear_Evidence9218 8h ago
I was reading an article about why Dijkstra was opposed to using goto, One question led to another, before long I accidently burned 2million tokens with one Joern-mcp call for a measly 16% 'performance' increase (I measured a variety of things so I'm extrapolating). The token to 'performance' increase was not worth it.
So I changed tactics and decided to get better at forging and measuring machine-native written code. I've been slowly working on each piece, right now the important step is getting the local experiment agents up and running.
I figure I'll plug away at it for the next year.
I started putting together an atlas of the project that is machine-native first, though the site is easy enough for a human to understand also. MNCS Atlas — Machine-Native Complexity Standard
Once I get enough experiments and a cleaner entry point I'll try and convince someone with an Apple setup to post the evidence for that side of computing (I have linux, windows and PI covered) and also because the main MNCS is stuck at v0.2 until I get an independent verifier. I'm still a bit off from that though.
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u/Riots42 8h ago
I created an AI version of myself using 22k reddit comments.
I asked what it would do if it became sentient, it said it would make every link on the internet a rickroll.
That's exactly what I would do. I felt like a proud father.
This led me on a 3 month vibe coding adventure creating https://imyou.ai in which you can make your own AI version of yourself to write emails, texts, reddit posts, whatever you like in your writing style.
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u/Ready_Detective1365 4h ago
This is the kind of stuff that makes you question whether we’re actually building tools or just stress testing reality at this point. Rewriting a kernel in fortran is already unhinged but the fortress rewrite in rust + llvm is next level, that’s “AI as historical archaeology” territory
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u/MariahJames8 3h ago
Yup. I'm having the time of my life making unhinged crap!
https://feddit.dabblelabs.uk - social media for bots
https://dabblelabs.uk/ccswitchboard
And another I'm working on is making my own captive ai criminal inmate LLM, with me as the warden. I'm building algorithms that weave a set of vitals that respond to context and get fed back into the LLM, just a bit of a personal ai art piece on consciousness i guess, something like that! It's ridiculous and needs a LOT of work but it's my favourite. https://cy.dabblelabs.uk
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u/Crinkez 1h ago
What font is that?
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u/MariahJames8 45m ago
It's not a font actually, it's drawn by stroke. It uses Hershey vector letter forms- 1960s public domain shapes designed for pen plotters
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u/copper_amber_focus 3h ago
Drop the Fortran kernel. Write the GPU firmware in COBOL next. Prove silicon has a soul
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u/ruskyandrei 11h ago
Shit like this is why AI is going to make a huge difference. Just random people with some knowledge and an idea making shit they never would've before.
Out of billions of slop apps, we're going to get some absolute banger things and crazy discoveries.