Reverse-engineering how a PDF parser's OCR fallback actually works
Claude clones a PDF parser, runs it with and without OCR, then reads the source to explain exactly how text extraction and OCR triage actually work.
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Reverse-engineering Game Boy Advance assembly to C
The user pastes raw ARMv7 Thumb assembly from a Game Boy Advance binary, and Claude reverse-engineers it into readable C code and a plausible struct layout.
Alan Kay's STEPS: an OS built from tiny DSLs, sourced and fact-checked
Explains Alan Kay's STEPS project — rebuilding an OS in 20,000 lines via custom mini-languages — then supplies links and a skeptical counter-read.
Chasing a phantom padding bug through a C++ tokenizer
A long hunt for pad tokens appearing at the start of every chunk, ending in a switch to left-padding so the last token lands where embeddings want it.
Debugging a Clustering Algorithm From an Academic Paper
A user and Claude implement a clustering algorithm from an academic paper in C++, then hunt down a string of real compiler errors together, line by line.