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A Gen Z slang programming language
A joke language built with Claude, complete with interpreter.
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Geoffrey Huntley ran Claude in a loop for three months, and it created "cursed", a complete programming language whose keywords are Gen Z slang, with an interpreter and compiler. Simon Willison wrote about it as a striking example of what long-running autonomous agents can produce.
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Hey, can you make me a programming language like Golang but all the lexical keywords are swapped so they're Gen Z slang?
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- Hacker News: Geoffrey Huntle Is Cursed: Making a GenZ slang programming language with Claude
Simon Willison's post about the cursed language.
- Hacker News discussion (4 points)HN submitter: kposehnPosted
- Hacker News: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months to create a genz programming language