alt Hacker NewsI'm sorry, this is simply not true.
this https://codeberg.org/lrvick/nit/src/branch/main/src/system/r...
is textbook definition of boilerplate. you need to be patient to cross-reference syscall tables but certainly not smart.
Again, students learning about operating systems do similar things as a normal part of their education process.
I'm not saying LLMs wouldn't help with this (in fact, this is the type of thing that becomes pretty much a no-op with them) but the notion that this is "impossible by any realistic standards" is risible, and if you have actually contributed to the kernel like you say, you should know better.
Rather than patiently referencing syscall tables by hand which is error prone and hard to review as a human, the LLM wrote tests to actually compare each of these to the kernel syscall tables to make my life a lot easier and avoid regressions or mistakes. Complex tests to write, that saves me a lot of time as a security reviewer. Can change any value and watch tests fail.
https://codeberg.org/lrvick/nit/src/branch/main/tests/kernel...
That is the point. Getting to results that satisfy security and functionality requirements in much less time.
Also, I was able to generate a bare minimal and hardened kernel config by using the LLM to write a tool to trace all kernel calls. Something that I would have normally been forced to punt on that LLMs made easy to justify.
LLMs are just as Linus Torvalds likes to say "Auto complete on steroids".