Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

Post by abathologist » Fri, Sep 12, 2025, 8:28 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #218

abathologist wrote: post #37

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This is the glaring fallacy! We are turning to unreliable stochastic agents to churn out boilerplate and do toil that should just be abstracted or automated away by fully deterministic, reliably correct programs. This is, prima facie, a degenerative and wasteful way to develop software.

Isn’t trying to remove boilerplate how we end up with situations like left-pad? I actually think I like the idea that, maybe by handling my boilerplate over to AI we can be more comfortable with having boilerplate to begin with.

Post by nurettin » Thu, Sep 18, 2025, 8:20 AM UTC

abathologist wrote: post #340

nurettin wrote: post #84

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Great point, but there is absolutely no way of doing this for every framework and then maintain it for ages. It is logistically impossible.

How big a dent do you think we could make if poured $252 billion dollars[0] just into paying down all our towers of tech debt and developing clean abstractions for all these known problems? [0]: https://hai.stanford.edu/ai-index/2025-ai-index-report/econo...