The Craziest Coding Contest Ever

Somebody in the Claude Code team needs to hire these ascii folks to hit the 60FPS animations

The anime girl shaped code didn't generate a dancing anime girl... I am beyond disappointed.

Missed part of the "fun" of the minesweeper one. It's meant to be a joke: it auto-fills any guaranteed inferences, so the ONLY choices you still get to make are the luck-based ones. It's intentionally made to eliminate all of minesweeper apart from the frustrating chance-based choices.

Wait until Prime learns about polyglot files that are PDF, a tarball, a C program, and an audio file at the same time... There was a competition for those too, IIRC

29:24 Not a bug! This is not a minesweeper game, this is a minesweeper SOLVER!

Dude, this isn’t an ad, it’s art. I hope you’re getting big bags for these masterpieces

My favorite IOCCC program is the tic-tac-toe that's written entirely in the C printf function. Turns out the printf function is unintentionally Turing complete

He is really close to discovering the demoscene

The Bonsai Tree Simulator needs to be mixed with the Relax Sounds Generator.

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