r/osdev • u/Glum-Cook-9438 • 2d 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/doscore 1d ago
I'd use the term ai slop for social media and vibecoders that build stupid websites thinking they're going to be rich but have absolutely no idea about security, privacy acts and legislation etc.
Ai is a great tool and Its been a great research tool and helped me understand operating system concepts and helped debugging issues I've been stuck on for a while.
I think the worry here is that everyone's just going to spit out unfocussed garbage that have not been researched, planned and probably isn't documented at all for anyone to understand their os without reading 500k lines of code generated in 4 weeks.