Author of the AI written os8088 OS here...
Thanks for sharing the promotional video for Visi On. It's cool to see how many different companies gave this a shot back in the 80s.
Thanks for sharing the promotional video for Visi On. It's cool to see how many different companies gave this a shot back in the 80s.
I'm curious about your goal in purchasing this project.
You don't get any peer recognition. You don't gain any special skill. You can't copyright it. You can't sell it. You can't use it for anything useful. You can't use it as a learning exercise. It can't really be built on. It can't serve as a tutorial for others to learn.
You don't get the satisfaction of a job well done (well, no more than the satisfaction you get from buying a toaster on Amazon).
Pre-LLM, something like this was a huge achievement. Now it's the equivalent of a 1st-grader showing off their finger-painting like it was the Mona Lisa.
So, what are you getting out of this?
In practical terms it's so useless that there's no point having a person spend time creating it, but, with AI changing the tradeoffs, now you can just have it created for you.
And...I do know how to write in assembly, VHDL, and higher level languages, but I also have a life, and I much rather have an LLM write out the assembly for a hobby like this one where I wanted something in 6 days, not 6 months.
What we take exception to is how your project’s landing-page misrepresents the project by saying it’s “hand-written”, for example, and lacks any clear up-front AI-use disclosure.
I thought about having a big flashing heading about the use of AI, but at that point, I think it was becoming more of a warning to AI triggered people than anything useful.
It's nowhere near "a fair amount of work". It's a fraction of a percent, if that. The reason I know this is because I am using LLMs quite deeply.
For this specific project, I'd be very surprised if the prompter needed to know anything more than:
1. Assembly exists. 2. The 8088 (and later) existed. 3. The target hardware's OSes did not support preemptive processes.
For Fable (which is what they used), it can infer the rest, with the user providing "No, that's not it, change the color" type of prompts.
Yes someone could spend immense amounts of time and effort, but clearly no one bothered to until AI made it easier.
yet the complainers will always complain because they don't have anything better to do with their own time...
"bugger off!" as they say.
It's hard to be impressed when someone purchases a new toaster, even if it's a bespoke toaster.
I want to know what the author thinks he got out of this.
Is that not enough?
FWIW I don't upvote submissions like this though, because it contributes to a climate of cheap superficial fame.
The Haiku project (an OS based on BeOS), is a remarkable achievement. It is sad that we may never see such things again, because people want their achievements to mean something, and, increasingly, intellectual achievements are becoming (unjustly and misleadingly) trivialized by the LLM hype machine.
It feels like humanity is deliberately making itself colorblind.
If you think LLM's allow you to wave a magic wand and anything gets done then you really are so anti LLM that you're now technically way way behind and just irrelevant.
Making software like this person has achieved is not just saying "do it" to an LLM and waking up in the morning.
Your anger towards LLMs has blinded you and set you back whilst everyone else moves ahead.
Honestly, I probably use 'em more than you.
> Your anger towards LLMs has blinded you and set you back whilst everyone else moves ahead.
If it makes you sleep better at night believing that, then sure, go ahead.
The reality is that most people lose any sort of status or respectability when they try to pass off difficult work as their own. This was true before LLMs, and will continue to be true, no matter how often someone shows us their equivalent of finger-painting.
You are the customer.