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AI · ood.dev · Sunday, 16 August 2026

Compiler writes Doom's renderer into a 21B transformer, zero training

Robert Porter's torchwright compiler translates Doom's classic renderer into the hand-set weights of a stock Phi-3-architecture checkpoint, so autoregressive generation reproduces frames with no training at all. Map, position, and view angle enter via the prompt, so one 21B model renders any scene it was compiled to handle.

Read the source: ood.dev ↗In the 16 August issue →