Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows

Next try writing a printer driver for your iPhone.

All the people saying "it's not a driver, it didn't write a driver, it's wrapping the Linux one" are missing the point: no one cares - the printer prints. It didn't before, and now it does.

I love seeing things like this. Is it not kind of a magical thing to see AI make stuff like this reality? This was always possible but not worth a human’s time. Now this guy has a working printer again. That’s pretty doggone neat.

Doesn’t every printer work with CUPS?

Notably done on Opus 4.8.

If you see articles from old computing magazines or TV shows in the 1980s (there’s some good rabbit holes on YouTube), the prevailing optimism was that everyone would have a computer in their kitchen and write their own programs for whatever they need to do..

But programming languages and operating system fragmentation didn’t let that really take off

Maybe now that original promise of personal computers can be realized :)

Imagine instead of going to the App Store, just telling ChatGPT etc to make a custom app and run it right away on your phone

The slightly sad part is that most of these LLM-assisted fixes probably never make it upstream, so life for non-technical Linux users does not improve...

If you do AI fixes, for the greater good, at least publish them (or even better, try to submit upstream, although expect to be ignored if the upstream does not like slop...)! :)

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344643

[dupe] Discussion, including activity from the dev https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49344643

I would like to see driver for my samsung printer. Drivers for mac was only for some very old macOS

"HP" "obscure"

Cool nonetheless.

Performing Stallman's stunt. Cool story bro, but unverified. Guy is marketing AI on X with an "attention is all you need" picture etc.

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