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Comment by delta_p_delta_x

2 days ago

I've been working on macOS and Windows drivers. Can't help but disagree.

Because of the absolute dearth of high-quality open-source driver code and the huge proliferation of absolutely bottom-barrel general-purpose C and C++, the result is... Not good.

On the other hand, I asked Claude to convert an existing, short-ish Bash script to idiomatic PowerShell with proper cmdlet-style argument parsing, and it returned a decent result that I barely had to modify or iterate on. I was quite impressed.

Garbage in, garbage out. I'm not altogether dismissive of AI and LLMs but it is really necessary to know where and what their limits are.

I'm pretty sure the GP referred to GGP's "brain dead CRUD apps" when they talked about automating 90% of the work.