Post #4243288
2026-07-30 14:19 UTC
Looking at an osdev project made with LLM agents and I can summarize my feelings into:
“stolen valor”
Like, osdev is the bastion of writing useless projects for fun and learning through pain, where you come out the other end with some mad impressive skills and demo to show.
And in between the mundane code to set up paging or GDT slip in bits of your own mind transformed into code that is truly yours forever. New APIs, novel algorithms, or just creativity.
With LLMs you learned nothing. Lame.
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@q3k@social.hackerspace.pl 2026-07-30 14:23
I'm not saying everyone has to have an osdev phase. It's fine to not do it, you gotta have a particular strain of brain worms for it, and it doesn't automatically make you a good coder/person if you do. But way to miss the whole point of the exercise to just get something to generate that code for you. There's nothing cool about this, you just wasted electricity to make a dead end useless project that impresses no-one but your own ego. It's a microwave meal, you gonna serve that to others?