And with the Linux Kernel being friendly to both LLM usage and a modern language, for some of us who don't know C, a huge barrier is lifted from being able to write device drivers.

Not a successful anecdote, but I have a Windows Hello compatible Kengsington fingerprint reader, and for some time I wanted to write drivers for Linux. Even without using C, it would have been a huge undertaking only to fail in the end; because Claude did much of the research and concluded that the device wouldn't work on Linux (can't remember why but it made sense). Then it suggested what could work.

Well good news... er... the opposite actually....

>Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-Moxa-Driver

I don't understand the technology enough to see why, but LLMs seem unusually skilled at reverse engineering proprietary software.

Maybe wiimotes will finally work on the Apple silicon bluetooth stack as they already do on Windows and Linus.