{"slug": "it-s-always-doom-https-ood-dev-posts-doom", "title": "It's always Doom https://ood.dev/posts/doom/", "summary": "A developer has compiled the classic game Doom into a transformer model, setting the weights of a stock Phi-3-architecture checkpoint so that autoregressive generation executes Doom's renderer without any training. The project demonstrates a novel approach to embedding procedural code into neural network weights.", "body_md": "Doom, compiled into a transformer — Out of Distribution\n          \n\n            No training anywhere: a compiler sets the weights of a stock Phi-3-architecture checkpoint so autoregressive generation executes Doom's classic renderer.\n          \n\n          ood.dev", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-always-doom-https-ood-dev-posts-doom", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/ben/its-always-doom-httpsooddevpostsdoom-4fpi", "published_at": "2026-08-13 20:04:27+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-13 20:17:22.985520+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Doom", "Phi-3", "ood.dev"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-always-doom-https-ood-dev-posts-doom", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-always-doom-https-ood-dev-posts-doom.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-always-doom-https-ood-dev-posts-doom.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/it-s-always-doom-https-ood-dev-posts-doom.jsonld"}}