alt Hacker NewsClaude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
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I've been taking Windows only apps from github and having Claude rewrite them for Linux. It's been awesome.
Doesn’t every printer work with CUPS?
I would like to see driver for my samsung printer. Drivers for mac was only for some very old macOS
Very cool. I want to do something similar to ressurect old Orb disks from over 25 years ago.
I love seeing things like this. Is it not kind of a magical thing to see AI make stuff like this reality? This was always possible but not worth a human’s time. Now this guy has a working printer again. That’s pretty doggone neat.
thats great but man I want a printer that is not manufactured by hp, epson or any of the giants. new player has entered the game
why are people still surprised that this is possible? To me, this is has been normal for the past 1.5 years.
This is very very cool. But now it has me worried about device driver coders being out of work. Why pay for months of low level coding. Grumble.
All the people saying "it's not a driver, it didn't write a driver, it's wrapping the Linux one" are missing the point: no one cares - the printer prints. It didn't before, and now it does.
tbh at times it feels like my fear of failure and lack of imagination is now the limiting factor.
Notably done on Opus 4.8.
The slightly sad part is that most of these LLM-assisted fixes probably never make it upstream, so life for non-technical Linux users does not improve...
If you do AI fixes, for the greater good, at least publish them (or even better, try to submit upstream, although expect to be ignored if the upstream does not like slop...)! :)
Performing Stallman's stunt. Cool story bro, but unverified. Guy is marketing AI on X with an "attention is all you need" picture etc.
Very impressive and enjoyable good experience. This was done with Opus 4.8! In theory Qwen 3.8-27B could do it too.
...I would have asked Fable.
How much longer until such use is deemed unwanted by our AI overlords?
Printer drivers
Is this
Product market fit?
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This adds to my feeling that LLMs are incredible at storing compressed information and accessing it in a versatile way.
Apart from occasional hallucinations we celebrate their ability to dissect information and to find obscure links between facts. Hence their stunning effectiveness in finding security holes or new approaches to math problems.
Interestingly the generative part - producing the answers - is what we are criticizing a lot: we think the code is verbose, texts have a weird repetitiveness to them etc.