NAND-16 Builds Computer From NAND Gates

This is a striking demonstration of long-running coding-agent autonomy: the breakthrough is maintaining coherence across hardware, systems software, and applications—not merely generating a flashy interface.

• –The project simulates 277,248 NAND gates and exposes signal flow down to individual components.
• –A complete path from logic gates to CPU, memory, OS, and game is unusually ambitious for a single autonomous coding session.
• –The browser demo offers real educational value for digital logic, CPU architecture, assemblers, and operating systems.
• –“One prompt” is compelling framing, but the real achievement is sustained iteration, debugging, and testing over roughly 30 hours.
• –It remains a demo rather than production hardware; performance, maintainability, and reproducibility are the next tests.