'cursed': AI-made Gen Z programming language — creator warns 'Ralph' loop is powerful

Developer Geoffrey Huntley used Anthropic’s Claude running in a loop to create a programming language called “cursed” that lets you write code with Gen Z slang; Huntley says he ran Claude in a loop for three months and released v0.0.1 and a website for the project. The language maps slang to programming primitives — examples Huntley shared include bestie -> for, ghosted -> break, simp -> continue, stan -> go, fr fr -> line comment, sus -> var, slay -> func, yeet -> import, squad -> struct, cringe -> false, nah -> nil and ඞT -> pointer to type T.

Huntley describes the technique he used as a “Ralph Wiggum loop,” an agentic coding loop that feeds an AI’s outputs (including errors) back into itself until the software converges; he says Ralph can be extremely powerful and running cursed through Ralph repeatedly could iron out wrinkles in the language.

Speaking to The Register and in his blog, Huntley suggested Ralph has enabled low-cost cloning of open-source software (perhaps $10 an hour), that it “can replace the majority of outsourcing at most companies for greenfield projects,” and recounted one case where a $50,000 contract was delivered at a cost of $297 using Ralph.

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