alt Hacker NewsSo we get a good article finally on someone actually doing impressive hacking and the response is “give it up, let AI“?
Where is the challenge or the fun or feeling of accomplishment in that?
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reaching the goal is what matters. I never understood people who don't get satisfaction from getting there. I don't care that AI writes the code.
It's not an unsympathetic position. macOS' current direction is controversial; many people want an alternative. They see Linux less as a hacking curiosity and more of an escape hatch.
Even with years of excellent, tireless reverse-engineering, Asahi's power management for M1 is not on-par with macOS, let alone what AMD/Intel chipsets get on Linux day-1. It's just inevitable that the hacking efforts will fragment into a fast-and-loose vs slow-and-steady mentality. And both of them will be equally right, since there is no official support for any of this hardware.
From a hacker's perspective, yeah the feeling of accomplishment in figuring out something manually is great. But from the end user's perspective, if I get to choose between "shit ain't working" vs "it's working flawlessly but AI was involved in getting there", I'm picking the latter every single time.