• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    4 hours ago

    I don’t care what people on here think, an AI being able to code an OS is really impressive, even if it is shit.

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      3 hours ago

      Dude… Sourcecodes of hobbyist OS are literally online available and thus scraped by LLMs. Of course it is able to cobble together a seemingly working OS.

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      It isn’t really an OS, it doesn’t have the layers or the infrastructure of an OS. It’s just a shitty app that can do a few pre-programmed things and those don’t even work. They call it an OS because it runs without needing an OS. But that doesn’t make it an OS itself. Before EFI you could just write machine code into the boot sector of any disk and the BIOS would boot from it. This used to be totally normal. My first machine was an MSX computer and it didn’t really have an OS. You’d have Basic for doing stuff, or you’d plug in a cartridge and it would run the code on the ROM inside that.

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        No thanks, I’ll stick to my 1000 monkeys writing on 1000 typewriters. “It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times.” You stupid monkey!

    • ivn@tarte.nuage-libre.fr
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      Is it really? That’s the same thing as the AI coded compiler. It has multiple OS source code in it’s training data, as someone put it about the Claude C Compiler: “it’s a brute force attempt to decompress fuzzily stored knowledge contained within the network”.