There are countless reference examples online, that's just a slower, buggier, and more expensive git clone.

Yep. If you ask Claude to create a drop-in replacement for an open-source project that passes 100% of the test suite of the project, it will basically plagiarize the project wholesale, even if you changed some of the requirements.

try one shotting something actually original and see how it goes

i keep getting nonsense

A full emulator in 6 minutes? I gotta call BS... I've been working on a SPC700 audio editor in the background as a side project, and implementing the cpu has taken at least 2 hours, and I still haven't implemented all of the opcodes.