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Had an experience like this recently. QEMU stopped compiling for old versions of MacOS (pre-13) w/M1 arch, due to it requiring newer SDKs which don't support older MacOS versions. I put Sonnet 4.6 on the case, and it wrote a small patch, compiled and installed it in a matter of minutes, without giving it any instructions other than to look at errors and apply a fix. I definitely would have just given up without the A…
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The future is either a regression of society from the resulting riots and massacres when 3/4 of the population is unemployed. Or perpetual work camps for the masses.
Can you name me another time when humanity has run out of useful work to do? Was it when we tamed fire, invented the wheel, writing, or double entry bookkeeping? All of which appear more consequential than current AI. We’ll always have something to do. And humans like doing things.
Fire can't build a house.
The wheel can't grow crops.
Writing can't set a broken bone.
Double entry bookkeeping can't write a novel.
If you believe that this AI+robotics wave will be able to do anything a human can do with fewer complaints, what would the humans move on to?
a kernel module written entirely by AI, loading into ring 0, that the author admits has known issues and shouldnt be used in production. Were speedrunning the "insecure by default" era.
Manufacturer/vendor did not provided open source driver with real freedom license (BSD/MIT/...) or documentation on which the driver could be written ... this is the result ... and its still better to overcome a problem in any way then to NOT overcome it at all ... and this driver is just a code - people can look at it and improve it.
Article says,
> Brcmfmac is a Linux driver (ISC licence) for set of FullMAC chips from Broadcom
I don't feel like looking to see where the Linux driver came from, but someone provided a permissively-licensed driver.
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This feels like when 3D printers hit the consumer market and everyone declared that buying things was over, everyone will just print them at home. There's tons of benefits to standardised software too. Companies rely on the fact they can hire people who already know photoshop/xero/webpack/etc rather than having to train them from scratch on in house tools.
What ever happened to that?
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TFA describes a port of a Linux driver that was literally "an existing example to copy".
Software is still eating the world, now even faster. I wonder how soon we will adapt to this new situation where software is vibe coded for anything and make use of this software without caution as expressed in the article. For most people the main difference will be: Will it run and solve my problem? Soon we will see malware being put into vibe coded software - who will wants to check every commit for write-only sof…
I think in the future (in 10 years?) we are going to see a lot of disposable/throwaway software. I don’t know, imagine this: I need to buy tickets for a concert. I ask my AI agent that I want tickets. The agent creates code on the fly and uses it to purchase my tickets. The code could be simple curl command, or a full app with nice ui/ux. As a user I don’t need to see the code. If I want to buy more tickets the same…
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> Unlikely. The future will be some people will do this, but honestly I think it will largely be people who were already tinkering with building things, whether full on software development or not Billions of dollars of stock market value disappeared because of the concern AI can create core SaaS functionality for corporations instead of them spending millions of dollars in licensing fees to SAP, Microsoft, etc. This…
Did you see the network security stock sell-off after Anthropic announced a code security analysis feature? There's a sliver of nothing between mob mentality and wisdom of the crowd.
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The Linux driver in this case is ISC licensed. There’s no legal or ethical problem in porting it. This is open source working as intended. I feel like the jury is still out on whether this is acceptable for GPL code. Suppose you get agent 1 to make a clear and detailed specification from reading copyrighted code (or from reverse engineering). Then get agent 2 to implement a new driver using the specification. Is ther…
>anything wrong with that? Wonder if the courts will move fast enough to generally matter.
AI models make the process of reversing and reimplementing drivers much cheaper. I don't understand the problem with that - it sounds like a glorious future to me. Making drivers cheaper and easier to write should mean more operating systems, with more higher quality drivers. I can't wait for asahi linux to support Apple's newer hardware. I'm also looking forward to better linux and freebsd drivers. And more hobbyist operating systems able to fully take advantage of modern computing hardware.
I don't see any downside.