Comment by petcat
2 days ago
The author specifically said that they did not read the code or even test the output very thoroughly. It was intentionally just a naive toy they wanted to play around with.
Nothing to do with AI, or even the capabilities of AI. The person intentionally didn't put in much effort.
> Nothing to do with AI, or even the capabilities of AI. The person intentionally didn't put in much effort.
The part to do with AI is that it was not able to drive a comprehensive and bug free driver with minimal effort from the human.
That is the point.
Why is that the metric? In my job, I get drafts from junior employees that requires major revisions, often rewriting significant parts. It’s still faster to have someone take the first pass. Why can’t AI coding be used the same way? Especially if AIs are capable of following your own style and design choices, as well as testing code against a test suite, why isn’t it easier to start from a kind of working baseline than to rebuild from a raf h.
Dis you hire juniors just to get drafts? That seems pretty inneficient.
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I’m not able to provide a comprehensive bug free driver.
Seems like they did put in quite a bit of effort, but were not knowledgeable enough on wifi drivers to go further.
So hardware drivers are not a solved problem where you can just ask chatgpt for a driver and it spits one out for you.
If you could write drivers in javascript, it probably would have done just fine /s
> The person intentionally didn't put in much effort.
Aren't you just describing every vibe code ever?
To think about it, that is probably my main issue with AI art/books etc. They never put in any effort. In fact, even the competition is about putting least effort.
> The author specifically said that they did not read the code or even test the output very thoroughly. It was intentionally just a naive toy they wanted to play around with.
Yes and that's what I'm pointing out, they vibe coded it and the headline is somewhat misleading, although it's not the authors fault if you don't go read the article before commenting.
But it does have to do with AI (obviously), and specifically the capabilities of AI. If you need to be knowledgable about how wifi drivers work and put in effort to get a decent result, that obviously speaks volumes about the capabilities of the vibe coding approach.
I strongly suspect that somebody with domain knowledge around Wi-Fi drivers and OS kernel drivers could prompt the llm to spit out a lot more robust code than this guy was able to. That's not a knock on him, he was just trying to see what he could do. It's impressive what he actually accomplished given how little effort he put forth and how little knowledge he had about the subject.
Someone with domain knowledge could also just write the code instead of trying to get the stochastic prediction machine to generate it. I thought the whole point was to allow people without said expertise to generate it. After all, that seems to be the promise.
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@petcat Is your nickname a description or an instruction?