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Cursed lang

2025-09-30 17:52:13.34001+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Geoffrey Huntley — i ran Claude in a loop for three months, and it created a genz programming language called cursed. It cost him $14k (via).

Code at https://cursed-lang.org/ https://github.com/ghuntley/cursed

$14k of LLM compute plus, of course, whatever prompting time and babysitting he had to do. Obviously that may get cheaper, although that cost to him likely includes massive subsidies from the Anthropic investors (why, yes, I do have the latest Where's Your Ed At open in another tab), but/and: I wonder what that taught him about language development, about parsing and data structures and whatnot.

I wonder how long it took Urban Müller to write the first version of Brainfuck.zCu

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