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Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

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Re: Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

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>> I also ruled out the back doors: one USB interface, one LUN, both claimed.

>What the fuck does this sentence even mean? Opus’ tone and style is nauseating.

Seems pretty clear to me.

Nothing exposed beyond the expected surface.

Whining about everything being AI, is worse than the AI itself. Especially when the blog post as a whole is clearly human written. OVERWHELMINGLY so

The actual AI stuff in the article is clearly called out and delineated.

Re: Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

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Getting another decade out of working hardware by writing your own driver is exactly the kind of project LLMs are good for. Low stakes, well-scoped, and the alternative was e-waste.

That’s exactly what I figured. Even though I feel it should have been Drobo’s responsibility to at least provide a detailed doc before going under.

They must have sold quite a few of these units, and I figure I’m one of the few (saw someone on Reddit reacting to a post to this with their own vibe-coded dashboard – which of course looks eerily similar) customers that went through such lengths to give their device a few more years. Providing an « official » open-source driver might have prevented some more e-wase – and token use!

Re: Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

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post #4

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>> I also ruled out the back doors: one USB interface, one LUN, both claimed. >What the fuck does this sentence even mean? Opus’ tone and style is nauseating. Seems pretty clear to me. Nothing exposed beyond the expected surface. Whining about everything being AI, is worse than the AI itself. Especially when the blog post as a whole is clearly human written. OVERWHELMINGLY so The actual AI stuff in the article is cle…

I’ll take the « OVERWHELMINGLY » as a compliment, I guess ;).

Re: Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

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post #4

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>> I also ruled out the back doors: one USB interface, one LUN, both claimed. >What the fuck does this sentence even mean? Opus’ tone and style is nauseating. Seems pretty clear to me. Nothing exposed beyond the expected surface. Whining about everything being AI, is worse than the AI itself. Especially when the blog post as a whole is clearly human written. OVERWHELMINGLY so The actual AI stuff in the article is cle…

You’re referencing an argument I never made. I have no problem with the author’s post, I was very specifically complaining about Opus’ barely coherent style of prose.

Re: Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

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Didn't know macOS is this "literally 1984", it's a bit wild.

It got me to apply some slop of my own. Supposedly there's some new provisioning scheme that'd allow the author to not have to disable SIP: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/provisioning-profil...

Re: Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> I also ruled out the back doors: one USB interface, one LUN, both claimed. >What the fuck does this sentence even mean? Opus’ tone and style is nauseating. Seems pretty clear to me. Nothing exposed beyond the expected surface. Whining about everything being AI, is worse than the AI itself. Especially when the blog post as a whole is clearly human written. OVERWHELMINGLY so The actual AI stuff in the article is cle…

You’re referencing an argument I never made. I have no problem with the author’s post, I was very specifically complaining about Opus’ barely coherent style of prose.

You were specifically complaining about Opus’ nauseating style of prose, by calling out a sentence by the author you didn’t immediately comprehend?

Re: Raiders of the Lost Array: vibe-coding a macOS driver for my orphaned Drobo

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Didn't know macOS is this "literally 1984", it's a bit wild. It got me to apply some slop of my own. Supposedly there's some new provisioning scheme that'd allow the author to not have to disable SIP: https://developer.apple.com/help/account/provisioning-profil...

Didn't know about this, thank you. I'll look into it.
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