About a blog post where an LLM reimplemented ls using only strace output.
Has this happened?
Yes 68 (55%)Not sure 53 (43%)No 3 (2%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About a blog post where an LLM reimplemented ls using only strace output.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
To be fair, the author claims he removed any mention of "ls" from the file. But also to be fair, the post is annoyingly click-baity. I'd be impressed if the LLM could generate more than 2 lines of code from a strace.