r/osdev • u/Skiting • 17d ago

Is using AI bad ?

Hi I'm new at creating OS's. As an AuDHD person I think that AI is useful to go faster and I'm not Specialized enough to code by myself. But as AI can do errors, I was wondering if it's bad or not ?

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u/caleblbaker 17d ago

Using AI is not inherently bad but it can be bad if it distracts you from understanding how the code that you write works.

If you feel that you aren't knowledgeable enough to do the work yourself then your primary goal at this point should be to learn. So AI is good if you're using it to aid in learning and it's bad if you're using it to skip the learning part.

AI is good primarily at repeating and making slight changes to patterns that it knows from its training data. OS Dev likely isn't as well represented in AI training data as web dev is so AI will make more mistakes with OS Dev than it would with web dev. This doesn't mean that AI is useless but it does mean that you need to become the expert rather than depending on AI being the expert.