> I built one, by porting Boehm’s engine.
> It’s 2026, so I didn’t hand-write the port. I directed Opus 4.8 to translate the source line by line into Swift
I wish I could filter out stuff like this. Cool work by Hans Boehm, but what's the value add in this blog post.
I like to think everyone came to the conclusion that it would strengthen the piece if most comments on it appear to miss the point and are slightly robotic.
Why do Hunyuan, OpenAI 4o and Gwen get a pass for the octopus test? They don't cover "each tentacle", just some. And midjourney covers 9 of 8 arms with sock puppets.
If there's ever a project as large as Chrome written in a non-C++ language, I guarantee you it will have these bugs as well -- due to use of `unsafe`, or bugs in the compiler, or what have you.
I wish I could filter out stuff like this. Cool work by Hans Boehm, but what's the value add in this blog post.