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Please update the title to mention that this is MacOS only; I got excited to try this out, but I only have laptops running Linux and Windows.

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yeah sorry about that. I don't have access to a Linux/Windows machine.

if I got a hold of the output and commands run, would gladly modify it.

fwiw, it would take 10 minutes to download a linux docker image and build it in go to test. The harder part is getting the information from a different API on Linux.

This post is 12 minutes old. Have you finished yet?

... and orders of magnite more time to properly access USB devices to some arcane VM not in your control

A Linux Docker image, probably doesn’t have any USB devices exposed to it-well, it depends on exactly how you run it, but e.g. if you use Docker Desktop for Mac, its embedded Linux VM doesn’t have any USB passthrough support. This is the kind of thing where a physical Linux host (laptop/desktop/NUC/RPi/etc) is much more straightforward than running Linux in a VM (or as a K8S pod in a datacenter somewhere)

> lsusb -v

On Linux that produces a lot of info similar to the macos screenshots, but with values and labels specific to the Linux USB stack.

I wonder if AI could map the linux lsusb output to a form your tool can use...

Is it really vibe coding if you’re testing it on the target machine? ;)

Yes, I think? “Vibe coding” is more about whether you are reading/reviewing the generated code, or just going with it, afaik.

We've updated the title now, thanks.

what do you mean, all developers only use macs!

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