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Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by Rebelgecko »

ryandrake wrote: post #76

I was able to (through heavy Claude use) successfully reverse engineer a golf cart motor controller that is programmable over USB, but only was supported by a Windows application. Claude walked me through using ILSpy on the .NET assembly, using Wireshark to capture the protocol over USB, and to completely map out all of the functionality in the Windows application. The output was a portable C library and CLI program…

I've had good luck using AI to reverse-engineer Bluetooth comms for "smart" products with shitty apps.

Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by ex-aws-dude »

embedding-shape wrote: post #77

Somehow, I'm not exactly sure why, I got creeped out by Claude's finishing line: > Thanks for being such a game debugging partner through all the test pages. Enjoy printing, you and the family. Maybe it's because my own LLM usage is very "Question > Answer" or "Do this > Agent does that" and I never say "Wow, that's crazy it works, thank you!" at the end or such, so I don't see that sort of things, but if I saw that…

> Leave my family out of this!

Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by thrownaway561 »

saejox wrote: post #66

my Brother dcp-t230 also doesn't have macos drivers and it's a usb only printer. if i ever get some tokens to burn, i would try the same.

I don't see anywhere in the post or the repo how much it cost him to do this in tokens.

Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by theultdev »

embedding-shape wrote: post #77

Somehow, I'm not exactly sure why, I got creeped out by Claude's finishing line: > Thanks for being such a game debugging partner through all the test pages. Enjoy printing, you and the family. Maybe it's because my own LLM usage is very "Question > Answer" or "Do this > Agent does that" and I never say "Wow, that's crazy it works, thank you!" at the end or such, so I don't see that sort of things, but if I saw that…

I'd be willing to bet somewhere in that conversation he said family printer or something.

Seems an oddly specific thing to hone in on otherwise.

Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by DougN7 »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #67

Claude Code is extremely "honest", and uses that word 10 times in that short transcript.

I find it uses “faithful” an awful lot. But it comes in waves - not at all for a few days and then 10 times in an hour.

Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by ryandrake »

sinpif wrote: post #79
ryandrake wrote: post #76

I was able to (through heavy Claude use) successfully reverse engineer a golf cart motor controller that is programmable over USB, but only was supported by a Windows application. Claude walked me through using ILSpy on the .NET assembly, using Wireshark to capture the protocol over USB, and to completely map out all of the functionality in the Windows application. The output was a portable C library and CLI program…

Had a similar thought today - maybe we could finally get Linux drivers for more HW...

I don't understand the technology enough to see why, but LLMs seem unusually skilled at reverse engineering proprietary software.

Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by hmokiguess »

theultdev wrote: post #84
embedding-shape wrote: post #77

Somehow, I'm not exactly sure why, I got creeped out by Claude's finishing line: > Thanks for being such a game debugging partner through all the test pages. Enjoy printing, you and the family. Maybe it's because my own LLM usage is very "Question > Answer" or "Do this > Agent does that" and I never say "Wow, that's crazy it works, thank you!" at the end or such, so I don't see that sort of things, but if I saw that…

I'd be willing to bet somewhere in that conversation he said family printer or something. Seems an oddly specific thing to hone in on otherwise.

That's funny, 'Ctrl + F' for 'family' returns a lot of uses of that word in different contexts, so I guess it must have scored heavy eh

Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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embedding-shape wrote: post #77

Somehow, I'm not exactly sure why, I got creeped out by Claude's finishing line: > Thanks for being such a game debugging partner through all the test pages. Enjoy printing, you and the family. Maybe it's because my own LLM usage is very "Question > Answer" or "Do this > Agent does that" and I never say "Wow, that's crazy it works, thank you!" at the end or such, so I don't see that sort of things, but if I saw that…

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Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by yakz »

embedding-shape wrote: post #77

Somehow, I'm not exactly sure why, I got creeped out by Claude's finishing line: > Thanks for being such a game debugging partner through all the test pages. Enjoy printing, you and the family. Maybe it's because my own LLM usage is very "Question > Answer" or "Do this > Agent does that" and I never say "Wow, that's crazy it works, thank you!" at the end or such, so I don't see that sort of things, but if I saw that…

The way that you talk to it influences the way that it responds to you and it is not subtle. I don't want to hitch on to the "it's just really complicated autocomplete" bandwagon, but this is one of the ways that it does feel like that.

Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

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Post by mag7269 »

ex-aws-dude wrote: post #82
embedding-shape wrote: post #77

Somehow, I'm not exactly sure why, I got creeped out by Claude's finishing line: > Thanks for being such a game debugging partner through all the test pages. Enjoy printing, you and the family. Maybe it's because my own LLM usage is very "Question > Answer" or "Do this > Agent does that" and I never say "Wow, that's crazy it works, thank you!" at the end or such, so I don't see that sort of things, but if I saw that…

> Leave my family out of this!

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