[ExI] What AI can do

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 19:29:18 UTC 2026


There exist first person Nethacks, old enough to have been in the
training data for the current version of Opus.  How do you know it
wasn't kind of just pulling from and morphing its memory?  (Human
developers would not simply remember "this is the code for FPV
Nethack".)

On Sat, Oct 17, 2026 at 3:10 PM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> In one prompt I asked Claude Opus to make a 3D first person view on top of the open source game Nethack (a normally text-based game that is played from the terminal).
>
> It took about 45 minutes but it ended up creating a single (12 MB) html file that implements the full game and its 3D first person views of the dungeons, items, and monsters:
>
> https://alwaysasking.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/NetHack-3D.html
>
> This is something that could easily take an experienced developer weeks to put together.
>
> The future is incredible.
>
> Jason
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