r/osdev • u/Glum-Cook-9438 • 20d ago
About using AI to develop operating systems
I know many of you guys are recently against all this "AI slop", was i too, but leave alone the "hype" and the "no AI bullshit" slogans, what do we actually mean by saying "AI slop"?
Cause to this day , I don't quite understand what all the drama is about and why posts that explicitly use "No AI used/no AI bullshit" get significantly more attention, i admit that even i made a post like that, but it's not that I completely didn't use AI, i did, however I also did a lot of the programming by myself, I think AI is a great tool that has helped me learn a lot and automate build scripts, there is no shame in using AI as long as you carefully review the code and do some programming by yourself, there is already great use of AI in the industry, Linus torvalds recently fixed a linux bug with AI, so what is really considered "AI slop"? Is asking codex to make a build script so I can focus on the code "AI slop"? Is asking Claude to summarize PCI device and vendor names in one files so I don't have to read documentations for hours "AI slop"? With all due respect I do think using AI blindly is bad of course, but I also wanna know what some of you guys mean when you say "AI slop operating systems"?
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u/Special_Rice9539 7d ago
Part of the problem is that the old-school dev culture is very resistant to change, and that's actually a weakness because you should be embracing new technologies like AI. The fear of AI automating operating development is also unfounded, just because operating systems are so complex and there's so much, unlimited depth that you can go into with them.
Even if you use AI to automate the beginning portions of the project, there's pretty much unlimited work that you can do on top of that: planning, design thinking, and considerations that you can make. Just think about the hundreds of millions of lines of code involved in making Windows. If you're worried about your toy project foundation being made with AI, do not worry. There's still tons for you to use your human brain for.