alt Hacker Newsthe spec-first approach is actually the historical clean-room technique, same way Phoenix BIOS was legally written without copyright exposure in the 80s -- one team writes spec from observation, completely separate team codes from spec only, no shared authors. here it's AI doing both passes but in different sessions with no shared context, which approximates the same separation. probably good enough legally but definitely interesting that the same old trick applies.
You haven't addressed the parent's concern at all, which is that what the LLM was trained on, not what was fed into its context window. The Linux driver is almost certainly in the LLM's training data.
Also, the "spec" that the LLM wrote to simulate the "clean-room" technique is full of C code from the Linux driver.