Image: github.com · NYC by Night running in QEMU
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New York at night drawn in a 512-byte boot sector
Claude wrote a 512-byte x86 boot sector that draws a New York skyline and boots in QEMU, from a two-sentence prompt.
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Credits
- Reddit poster pokeuser61 Source ↗
- Repository account pikalover6 Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
Using Opus 5.5 at max effort, the poster gave a single two-sentence prompt and got a complete boot sector in 55 minutes. The whole program is 512 bytes and boots on an i386 under QEMU, drawing a night view of New York.
The assembly source and code are on GitHub as an example for similar experiments.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: NYC drawn in a single boot sector by Opus 5.5Reddit poster: pokeuser61Posted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
If it disappears: archived copy of Reddit: NYC drawn in a single boot sector by Opus 5.5 (opens in a new tab)
- The code: github.comRepository account: pikalover6
The project on GitHub.