alt Hacker NewsTrue. But also -- how do humans do it? There are docs and there's other similar driver code. I wouldn't be surprised if Claude could build new driver code sight-unseen, given the appropriate resources
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Humans do it with access to the register-level data sheets, which are only available under NDA, and usually with access to a logic analyzer for debugging.
Usually, the problem with developing a driver isn't "writing the code," it's "finding documentation for what the code should do."
> But also -- how do humans do it?
Intelligence.
Scientific method. There are many small discoveries humans make that involve forming a hypothesis, trying something out, observing the results, and coming to a conclusion that leads to more experimentation until you get to what you actually want. LLMs can’t really do that very well as the novel observations would not be in their training data.
> But also -- how do humans do it?
Probably a mix of critical thinking, thinking from first principles, etc. You know, all things that LLM's are not capable of.