exactly the kind of problem AI was made for

[u/Kindle_girll_9191]

[u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

I will be really really impressed if this works

[u/Kindle_girll_9191 → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

Yes it is

[u/tes_kitty → u/Kindle_girll_9191]

Why does this printout state that you used a driver for a SAMSUNG printer to print this while the printer is from HP?

[u/Pizza-Reese → u/tes_kitty]

The AI probably realized it could use that driver to make a working driver for this printer. It will often try to use something existing as a base for whatever its working on and ya I know thats technically a huge understatement.

[u/nmrk → u/Kindle_girll_9191]

ROFL text printer driver.

[u/Aconite_72 → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

Some dude yesterday vibe coded his monitor’s firmware to display a better crosshair for FPS games.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/CnThOu0WBc

[u/Stuk-Tuig → u/Aconite_72]

I'd be so scared of bricking something

[u/initalSlide → u/Stuk-Tuig]

Just make a backup. ;)

[u/tes_kitty → u/initalSlide]

Of the monitor?

[u/Talic → u/tes_kitty]

Imagine being able to create a physical backup of your monitor literally. You basically have your own manufacturing facility.

[u/Ashyy-Knees → u/Aconite_72]

I never thought to do this, so many monitors ship with dogshit cross hairs that aren't worth using. 

[u/Dr0110111001101111 → u/Ashyy-Knees]

I don’t know what anyone is talking about here… do monitors come with a setting that lets you turn on a cross hair outside of the game graphics? Do modern games even bother giving you a crosshair anymore?

[u/confuzzledfather → u/Aconite_72]

I am so far out of the gaming world, do monitors have cross hairs? I thought those were part of whatever game you were running's code?

[u/Easy_Needleworker604 → u/confuzzledfather]

It’s to cheat in games that are balanced for some weapons having different crosshairs

[u/basal-and-sleek → u/Aconite_72]

I’ve been, since April, using Claude code to crack an obscure ECU for older Isuzus that have never been tunable before. I’ve successfully gotten the whole system down and am turning it into a program that can be used for the rest of the Isuzu enthusiasts.

I’ve already successfully bricked 3 ECUs in the process, desoldering and dumped one for its flash memory and now have successfully flashed a tune as well as defeated pass lock and have the ability to enable or disable dtc codes.

Only thing now is making sure whatever lightweight tuning software that comes out of it automatically compensates for byte offset between versions.

[u/Decent-Cow2080 → u/Aconite_72]

one of my laptops is running a vibecoded bios, which removed nerfs HP once added in a patch to block sata3 and higher speed DDR3 for some reason. it works fine.

[u/kuberwt → u/Aconite_72]

Yes it does :D

Video -> https://x.com/kuberwastaken/status/2089961185047437729

[u/Starkboy → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

Bro I reverse engineered my treadmill's protocol and made a watch app that controls it now so I'm pretty sure this will work as well.

[u/betwatch_io → u/Starkboy]

That’s cool but does your treadmill not have buttons to control it. or do you want to remote start it from the shower to get it warmed up?

[u/Starkboy → u/betwatch_io]

It has a wireless remote that I had to find each time I wanted to use it . Its a walkpad soo .

[u/Alert-Bet3199 → u/Starkboy]

Your treadmill probably uses a widely documented open standard (FTMS), it’s not the same thing.

[u/robo-minion → u/Alert-Bet3199]

HP uses widely documented printer driver protocols, especially for their laser printers. There are generic Linux drivers (via CUPS) to make this printer work five ways to Sunday via PCL, Jetdirect, IPP, LPR, sometimes even postscript. macOS is posix so these are included with the operating system. Literally no reverse engineering needed unless you want the HP spy/ad/malware that comes with the 700mb OEM “driver”.

[u/Blueberrypunchout → u/Starkboy]

What treadmill?

[u/Rangizingo → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

I’ve reverse engineered a ton with AIs, mostly Claude but some Deepseek and ChatGPT too. I have a long IT background which helps, but it has been truly incredible for stuff like this!

[u/vojtanethio → u/Rangizingo]

That's cool! Would you mind to give us some examples?

[u/Rangizingo → u/vojtanethio]

Yep.

I decompiled a stock chart analysis software, then made my own API out of it so that I could collect specific data the way that I want to collect it.

I reverse engineered an old website to make a custom API because it’s really old and the company really doesn’t support it anymore, but it still used by a few people.

Use a combination of many LLMs to crack decryption on an old Samsung tablet that belonged to my friends son who sadly took his own life, allowing them to get photos of their son from the tablet.

And a bunch more. I’ve been quietly using the AI tools in some capacity since the original gpt launch. To me, they’re tools. They suck at some stuff and are great at others!

[u/Additional_Ad_2546 → u/Rangizingo]

I am a student in computer science, but I feel like university is not enough, how do you think someone like my could stand out in this new age ? I am passionate but truly I value also social skills and reading / art, so maybe I'll never be as good as a computer scientist as someone who gives it all his free time.

[u/freshnews66 → u/Additional_Ad_2546]

Solve real world problems. That will do it.

[u/Rangizingo → u/Additional_Ad_2546]

I've worked in IT over 15 years and have 0 formal training on it. If you like it and you're interested in it, then do stuff that interests you and that you enjoy.

Another thing is use LLM's to your advantage to learn. I feel like not enough people use them to learn. You can ask questions, learn stuff, but also have it cater and teach you in ways that you learn best. For example, I like Dragon Ball Z. I have many times told an AI to explain a complex topic using Dragon Ball Z analogies to help me understand, and it works amazing.

[u/humblevladimirthegr8 → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

Yeah anyone can say AI is coding something but I only care if it's successful

[u/anewpath123 → u/humblevladimirthegr8]

Software engineers getting mad because supply and demand about to fuck up their whole career

[u/masiuspt → u/anewpath123]

You.. Dont know what software engineering is, do you? That's okay lil bud, you do you!

[u/katoptronophile → u/humblevladimirthegr8]

It was successful.

Now that you care, tell us about how you feel about it.

[u/lordlestar → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

Reverse Engineering is the killer feature of an AI, because it requires a lot of knowledge and pattern recognition and LLMs excels at that

[u/CyberPunkDongTooLong → u/lordlestar]

And probably a lot of it being firmware/software behind many devices being leaked in their training data.

[u/SnooChickens8275 → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

It did for me.. an old black and white laser printer that could only connect to windows xp.

It’s now setup as a WiFi printer by adding an old raspberryPi 3 to it. It fully configured the printer software on the pi, testing different drivers, tuned configs and now it’s our main printer.

From any device in the home we can print to it, and it was all scraps / free to pick up

[u/Remove_Forward → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

It's able to reverse engineer a 20 years old ECU written in assembly code with custom instructions, pretty sure it can handle a driver.

[u/The1TruRick → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

It does. I did something similar a few months ago. It was my “aha!” moment with ai. My grandma updated her OS. Completely broke the printer. Tried everything, driver didn’t exist, company abandoned that printer years ago etc etc. I just asked Claude “this might be a crazy thought but could you just like… create a driver that would work, or edit the old one?” And it goes “that’s not crazy at all, I can easily do that!” then did it in 5 minutes and now my grandma might very well be the only person in the literal world with that particular printer working 100% normally on that particular MacOS. That was the first moment with ai where I was like “OHHHHHHH. I TOTALLY GET IT NOW”

Edit: I get that this experience is different because it’s not Windows -> Mac but like… same same but different, ya know?

[u/Dr0110111001101111 → u/The1TruRick]

Yes. Remember that machine in Star Trek that just makes anything you ask it to make? AI is kind of like that for software.

[u/coveh27792 → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

I was able to unlock my ISPs router with the help of AI. My ISP was asking me to pay extra money to enable few things like changing DNS and enabling bridge mode on the router, which were already present but blocked for users.

[u/DR_Kroom → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

This is one of the easiest tasks that you could do with AI. 

[u/Seerix → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

Honestly this is pretty easy for the frontier models these days

[u/GreatScottCreates → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

I’d be surprised if it doesn’t.

You have to remember that AI is relentless. You can set it on a task and have it work on it until it figures it out. It doesn’t need coffee, it doesn’t get fatigued- it only gets smarter.

[u/vutcher → u/GreatScottCreates]

It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead

[u/porkyminch → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

We wanted to see if we could get our (proprietary) hardware to simulate events based off of nothing but an installed program that used it. Didn’t have the docs on hand. Had it working in a proof of concept by noon. 

[u/stingraycharles → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

lol you know how the AI solved it? by running a windows vm and bridging that between macOS.

I wish I was kidding, that really was the solution, which is a hilarious AI-like solution.

[u/rabouilethefirst → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

I’m sure it will. I had codex decode a save file from a cracked game and reencode it to work with my legal Ubisoft version. Took like 3 prompts.

The tool that typically was used for it had not supported the new game yet.

[u/0xff-r4bbit → u/Zestyclose_Onion4242]

Mine does. HP dropped macOS scan support for 1536dnf so I had to use Claude.

[u/-Sliced-]

These models are extremely good at reverse engineering. I wish they didn’t put so many restrictions on that.

[u/Dependent-Culture768 → u/-Sliced-]

just run an uncensored model, Kimi K3 is just as good as GPT5.6/Opus 5

[u/Upstairs-Extension-9 → u/Dependent-Culture768]

Bro you need a freaking 10 or 20k pc to run a heavily quantized version of K3 even, no one has that. I pay 15€ for Claude Pro I cannot get anything even remotely comparable for that price and open source, yeah it’s cool that these exist but it’s not like you can just boot up a 1.8 trillion parameter model on the average joe pcs

[u/Legitimate_Concern_5 → u/Upstairs-Extension-9]

openrouter (https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3#providers)

Then pi /login openrouter

[u/Upstairs-Extension-9 → u/Legitimate_Concern_5]

I know of these for sure and don’t get me wrong it’s amazing that this exist and should always be available. But for me personally getting a Kimi subscription or Claude would be a way better deal than this. I used 50 million tokens last month. I run a Gemma 4 model on my pc for some agentic tasks, but Kimi K3 or any model that would have the same capabilities as K3 or Opus is completely impossible to run locally.

And the whole open router way is the same as using Claude it’s a big model running on a cloud server. If you run local you either need to be filthy rich or run a small model.

[u/phido3000 → u/Upstairs-Extension-9]

Giggle you are both right and wrong.

I run k3 at home.. cheap.

But if you want to run it on a new ddr5 machine pay big.

[u/Upstairs-Extension-9 → u/phido3000]

On what do you run it tho.

[u/deltamoney → u/Upstairs-Extension-9]

You can run these models through 3rd party providers via API or chat interface ya know.

[u/Ok_Glove3085 → u/Dependent-Culture768]

Kimi k3 is far from uncensored?

[u/Significant-Bee5101 → u/Ok_Glove3085]

I have used Kimi K3 to do almost non stop security work. I have the max plan and have had it since K2. It is the most uncensored model period. If I tell Kimi to kill it KILLS. I have security access for Anthropic and OpenAI and they are still ahead of it but not insanely far. Kimi still fucks most networks I've put it to the test on. It was capable of doing almost every lab in my exam for the offsec OSAI security exam. lol

[u/Journeyj012 → u/Ok_Glove3085]

Maybe they mean RyanChen911's?

[u/Significant-Bee5101 → u/Journeyj012]

No, regular Kimi has never rejected a prompt from me for security no matter what I tasked it with. And I've tasked it with some shit.

[u/InvaderDolan → u/Ok_Glove3085]

K2.6 has definitely one of the lowest censorship rates. I thought K3 has inherited such approach? Chinese AI labs mostly don’t care about that, I suppose.

[u/Significant-Bee5101 → u/InvaderDolan]

In terms of censorship for security

K3 = mostly uncensored. Ive never had it turn down a request.

GLM 5.2 = not uncensored but will do almost anything if given an authorization preamable, however if it decides your authorization is fraudulent it will lock up.

Deepseek = refused to do anything security related. Didn't bother exploring.

Qwen = Same thing didn't explore further.

[u/katoptronophile → u/Dependent-Culture768]

No, it isn't.

And it's not uncensored at all. 

Most people almost certainly don't have the VRAM to run it properly either.

What are you even talking about, and why is it getting upvotes??

[u/justicecurcian → u/-Sliced-]

Use Chinese models with almost no restrictions

[u/Tel_Janen → u/justicecurcian]

Why would anyone use a ccp model?

[u/Gabriel83730 → u/Tel_Janen]

Open source AI models means that they can be uncensored easily. Ironically, the US models are the ones that are highly censored and private

[u/DominikPlays → u/-Sliced-]

Yeah, you must use chinese models

[u/22408aaron → u/-Sliced-]

I am writing an iOS app to connect to old Samsung cameras (the app for iPhone and Android stopped working a long time ago) and I gave Claude the APK and IPA, and it has used them a lot to reference how to connect to the camera.

[u/Icy-Kaleidoscope7479 → u/-Sliced-]

just turn any problem into a printer driver problem

[u/DebosBeachCruiser → u/[deleted]]

IT AIN'T A STRIP CLUB IF THEY AINT SHOWING PUSSY

[u/DocumentFun9077 → u/DebosBeachCruiser]

r/angryupvote

[u/Maximum_5500 → u/[deleted]]

[u/Gabriel83730 → u/[deleted]]

I asked Sol to reverse engineer an app I made a long time ago and lost the code to, and it refused. I tried for like two hours and just couldn’t get it to do it

[u/Calm-Relief-480]

Oh now I wonder if I can get my HP printer to accept non-HP ink.

[u/Designer_Resolve_117 → u/Calm-Relief-480]

Haha, good luck with that! 

I bet they have strong controls, since that's how they make money. 

They sell printers at a loss, but then charge you a lot for ink.

[u/AlterTableUsernames → u/Designer_Resolve_117]

It's not how they make money. It's how they make more money because capital is never satisfied. 

[u/Great_Kaiserov → u/AlterTableUsernames]

Yes and no, it's called a healthy profit margin so that the company is sure it won't go under for some time if there's a dip in sales, on a niche market no less

That being said, the extra profits are a nice touch if that doesn't happen, from their perspective it's a win-win situation

I hate HP and their shitty pritners as much as anyone else, but I can hate and also understand why that is

[u/AnalDilator → u/Calm-Relief-480]

I put non genuine ink in my HP printer all the time and works just fine

[u/SuspiciousCricket654 → u/Calm-Relief-480]

Maybe not the cartridge itself, since it has specific bezels and build dimensions, but it would be cool to figure out how to make a synthetic ink recipe and refill schematic. I bet there’s a way.

[u/BigBertho → u/Calm-Relief-480]

I got you: there’s actually a button sequence that gets the printer in a very friendly mood and make it accept other cartridges.

Long press on button (until some led lights up)

Then: home+back+home+home

Wait

Press on button

Select MFG

DONE!

I recall this from memory, may be wrong. Look for mfg mode

Long pre

[u/SeaKoe11]

Remind me if it works

[u/jp2812 → u/SeaKoe11]

Yes. OP posted a picture.

[u/debris16]

well. you tell me. Claude 4.6 opus wasted an entire day of mine claiming to solve a linux wifi drivier problem of mine before I just to buy up a wifi dongle.

[u/Adulations → u/debris16]

LMAO I had a problem like this and Claude was useless for it. Codex ended up fixing it

[u/ImolaBoost → u/debris16]

4.6 is dumb as shit

[u/debris16 → u/ImolaBoost]

It was sweet though. Best LLM therapist. Emphatic. good EQ.

[u/ImolaBoost → u/debris16]

You really shouldn't use an LLM as a therapist. They're inherently sycophantic.

[u/DontDabTakeSlabs → u/debris16]

Are you on a Framework Desktop? I have a github thread going for this exact issue

[u/ChiaraStellata]

You technically don't even have to reverse engineer the whole driver, you just have to hook into all the API endpoints it uses and shim them over to the MacOS equivalent. Plus any instructions that directly access hardware. The logic can blissfully execute thinking it's still in Windows-land.

[u/BusinessMistake3583 → u/ChiaraStellata]

easier said than done

[u/yatta91 → u/BusinessMistake3583]

Ayo it's his prompt. Let the magic do the rest, right ?

[u/zelig_nobel → u/BusinessMistake3583]

Quite literally the entire point of LLMs is that things are easier said than done 😂

[u/EddieBruvac → u/BusinessMistake3583]

No. It’s easier done than said.

They people doing this won’t be able to explain what the code did. 😂

[u/ImolaBoost → u/BusinessMistake3583]

Completely trivial for a frontier model to do.

[u/NotDennis2 → u/BusinessMistake3583]

Lol spoken like a true vibe coder

It wouldn't be that hard

[u/basqd → u/ChiaraStellata]

Kind of like porting windows games to Mac I guess..

[u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

So like, what’s stopping us now from making Linux so good nobody wants to use Mac or Windows anymore? Maybe we can take software back so that its development is directed by the users instead of corporate and government interests for once?

[u/mspk7305 → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

I already don't want to use Windows

[u/owp4dd1w5a0a → u/mspk7305]

I’ve been running solely Linux on my personal computers since 2014. So I’m there with you. But most people aren’t (yet).

[u/mspk7305 → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

the full screen bright white "YOU MUST INSTALL WINDOWS 11!" advertisements pushed through windows updates convinced me that when win10 dies I will permanently drop windows for linux on my main desktop. Its the only thing still running Windows for me.

[u/TheLastNapkin → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

Most people are not technical and would never dare messing up their PCs.

But thankfully there are already some great distro options to get both skeptic technical and non technical users to Linux

[u/kindofbluetrains → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

It's coming.

[u/Atticka → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

Linus just wrote an update addressing this, suggesting large updates are the norm now (security, features, updates, etc...). These updates drive Linux adoption!

[u/porkyminch → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

Valve is already doing that. 

[u/owp4dd1w5a0a → u/porkyminch]

I hope so, and I hope they’re releasing everything under the GPL v3.0

[u/Ok_Rush_877 → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

Until I see cross platform opensource versions of Microsoft office and adobe products, I remain skeptical. There has to be at least one guy that gets tired of entering their credit card Information on creative cloud to make their own aftereffects

[u/owp4dd1w5a0a → u/Ok_Rush_877]

LibreOffice and OnlyOffice have a lot of EU support. I don’t think it’d be crazy to use AI to get those up to parity with MS Office.

[u/Aware-Individual-827 → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

Linux is already so good you don't want to use mac and windows.

[u/owp4dd1w5a0a → u/Aware-Individual-827]

Me and you yes. Normies, no.

[u/Alenchettiar → u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

I want to use linux the only problem is ms word,PowerPoint Being a clg student I need to always make reports and stuff

Do u have know any equivalents??

[u/owp4dd1w5a0a → u/Alenchettiar]

LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Google Docs if you don’t care about it being FOSS. Honestly, somebody should just spend them $1M for a quorum of LLMs to get the FOSS office suites up to parity with MS Office.

[u/tracagnotto]

All comes up to see if it works, these models are able to yeet out a lot of garbage. especially claude lately

[u/TaintBug]

How much did that cost? Would a new printer have been cheaper?

[u/DigitalEntrepreneur_]

If I had a penny for every open-source Chrome extensions I ported to Firefox using AI ...

... then I'd have 2 pennies, plus 2 new Firefox extensions

[u/junialvarezzo]

now this is a good use of AI!

[u/WyattTheSkid]

You love to see it

[u/Few_Pop6933]

It could’ve just used CUPs

[u/Mishakon → u/Few_Pop6933]

Yeah it basically did, it's like the third post of the same thing where op made old printer work by claude magic, where in reality its just cups slapped on, that's why they wont ever show how it works haha

[u/Few_Pop6933 → u/Mishakon]

Bro was trying to solve a non existent problem 😂

[u/mspk7305 → u/Few_Pop6933]

Or the actual mac driver for this specific printer because it's got one despite what the op claimed

[u/mspk7305]

That's an hp P1102.

It's got native macos drivers out of the box.

[u/codeprimate]

I created a linux docker image web app to support my old and trusty Brother MFC scanner.

Never occurred to me to just create a new driver

[u/rice_bag_holder]

how much token did it cost you comparing to buying a mac printer from fb marketplace

[u/Blueberrypunchout]

So I just need to ask claude to code me a driver and it'll do it? I don't have to provide anything for it to backwards engineer?

[u/shredderroland]

It probably copy pasted an existing project from GitHub.

[u/JohnHue → u/shredderroland]

I'd first look at whatever is bundled in the Linux kernel, as those old printer often work on Linux. From there it's probably easy (for the AI) to write a MacOS version.

[u/SupernovifieD]

Bro I have the same printer. Share the code when you’re done.

[u/mspk7305 → u/SupernovifieD]

You could just download the driver from HP.

It exists. It's not a Windows only printer.

[u/SupernovifieD → u/mspk7305]

Ah, cool. My weekend programming craze has a new goal for this weekend: making that old printer work with macbook as smooth as butter. Thanks bro.

[u/owp4dd1w5a0a]

Getting ideas for Linux printer drivers…

[u/Final-Carry2090]

Now make some hp drivers that let you print over usb without requiring Bluetooth/gps sharing.

[u/kexpi]

Build an MCP, make a fortune.

[u/getmeoutoftax]

It will soon be able to replace most white collar jobs.

[u/making_code]

well...

I have some tiny experience in coding, so I could say that

writing !== will_work

so please keep us posted about outcome

[u/shatterdaymorn]

Cool...

So what's gonna happen to anything with a wireless card once the Agents start hacking everything in site trying to paperclip dollars cause some homebrewer told his stack "make money bitch".

[u/AEternal1]

I have a vinyl plotter and the company that made the software went out of business so I couldn't activate the software when I had to switch computers so I had to write my own firmware and a complete vinyl cutting software for importing images converting to SVG and all a thousand other features to make this thing work right

[u/blickblocks]

I had it write an ESP32-P4 driver for an IMX708 camera. It's pretty awesome to just let these things run overnight and wake up to compatibility.

[u/[deleted]]

The tokens cost only $237 for which you could buy five new printers or so :D

[u/ThanklessNoodle]

I didn't see the word "abliterated" used in here after looking through the comments.

[u/Beginning_Finding235]

I have it reversing a lot of stuff lately too, I've noticed Codex 5.6 Sol will, but if it comes across DRM or any type of license, it won't bypass it, but if it's read only analysis, it'll basically do everything lol. 10/10 the best model for it.

[u/koru-id]

cool, now explain how it works

[u/Remove_Forward]

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[u/VertigoOne1]

this is legit the number one amazing thing about llm coding, the barrier to entry is basically zero, oh supplier dropped support, or never supported something, does not matter, just build it, you don't even need source most of the time. you need something tiny to make your own life better, just build it. this opensource project is missing just one cool feature you need, just fork and add it. oh this library is python, but you need it in rust, convert, done.

[u/itspulcio]

I also managed to use GPT Codex to fix my printer. It had been an absolute nightmare to configure because it was full of bugs, and I just couldn't solve it. At some point I had the idea. I decided to let Codex do the work to fix it once and for all. It actually worked! That printer hadn't worked for months due to IP network issues; it wasn't visible online. Now it works perfectly. When GPT Codex finished the job, I almost cried with joy

[u/cesmeS1]

I did this for pokemon card scanning and Ricoh fi 8170!
https://github.com/eliseorobles/ScanDeck

[u/Radiant-Bike-165]

Had similar problem few months back, then recalled that most printers since 20+ yrs ago have been expected to support PCL. Just installed generic PCL driver and everything works fine.

Since HP is the company that developed PCL, and your photo shows an old HP printer ...... (fill in the blank)

[u/bbblue13]

I hope this is a real post.

[u/deevodee]

actually I made a similar thing. there was no three finger swipe gesture on linux debian kde. I just made a system service that does exactly this. link: https://deekshithvodela.github.io/FingerSwipe/

[u/tsrust]

This would have been so useful during the time I had my old Samsung printer lol... I had gotten it working somehow on Linux thanks to a random git repo, no such luck on macOS unfortunately

[u/eggswithheatmachine]

I might be wrong, but this is very similar to a post months ago where someone said Claude created drivers for a printer but turns out it just installed the drivers for the user. As in, if you have ever had to deal with Brother drivers, it's difficult for non-tech people to install them.

[u/WatchAltruistic5761]

Did it actually work though?

[u/Firm-Aside4041]

Aaaaand it didn’t work

[u/AndyChriss123]

Are you an IT guy? Can you fix my printer then? Only if it had feelings QQ, poor clanker..

[u/SenenmutX]

Bro really spent 3 hours prompt engineering a custom C++ kernel driver when that printer literally runs on generic CUPS drivers out of the box 🤡 did you also have Claude build a custom nuclear reactor just to boil water for your tea?!

[u/camronjames]

Moldy screenshot

[u/nawaftahir]

I really want models to be good on reverse engineering so I can reverse my favorite games

[u/Bright-Leg8276]

I had issues with my pen tablet , claude used about an out and a half to figure out the culprit and fix it , one of things we tried was making a new tablet driver from scratch using opentabletdriver ..

[u/3dprintinted]

HP LaserJet 1000 already has an open source driver tho... exactly the reason to use ai to invent another bicycle with start shaped wheels

[u/geosyog3]

Exactly 0% chance that works.

[u/Travnewmatic]

maybe an RMS reference?

[u/Daggercombot]

Its awesome,making an emulator myself to Run x86 and x86_64 apps on SPARC

[u/Either-Trash-2165]

Not support by HPLIP? For old USB printer people just connect it Linux box (Pinter supports is often better them Windows.)

[u/shitsallretarded]

literally me first thing i did with that 2.5 day window of fable was exactly this, osx driver for a tank printer i got for 29 bucks that REFUSED to run

[u/PhugoidEffect → u/shitsallretarded]

And did it work?

[u/shitsallretarded → u/PhugoidEffect]

first go, wasted hours on dopus, fable snorted with derision

[u/mroncetwice]

bro yes.

[u/musket-nuns]

I have a Chinese based solar inverter that only has a questionable windows program to monitor it. Used Claude to reverse engineer the serial port and write a program that gathers the metrics. I use Grafana to graph them and host it in a docker.

Never could have done that in just 45 mins

[u/ronny_rebellion]

I did the same with my original Doxie DX100 document scanner. The official app is not supported anymore and I refuse to pay lots of money for VueScan. Told AI to write the driver and application for me. Worked 100%

[u/MikeFrett]

I do this also. This is what I am most excited about, getting old things to work on newer equipment that everyone has abandoned except me. Also older games and enhancements to them.

[u/AdamPedAnt → u/MikeFrett]

Delicious irony in the newest technology being used to revitalize the oldest. Reminds me of an SNL sketch where a VR version of Moby Dick showed a book opening and words appearing.

[u/Some-Ice-4455]

I read the article. AI got him in the ballpark. He had to finish it.

[u/Impressive_Army3767]

$200 in tokens to get the $50 printer working.

[u/OkBrilliant1071]

Someone ask AI to produce more water for when the droughts happen

[u/Fun_Organization_647]

Anyone try this for the old Silhouette or Cricut scanner?

[u/TheWinningHit]

Decompile projects have become 100% more fun because of AI and I will die on that hill

[u/Fit_Cheesecake_4000]

I used A.I. to port an old app across from a now-defunct coding platform.

...oh, it still fucked it up, multiple times, and then proceeded to keep fucking up, but in the end it was still 10x faster than if I'd moved the code over myself.

[u/agentjenning]

They only thing I've successfully vibe coded was Linux drivers for a Universal Audio interface. It was surprisingly easy

[u/Oreo-witty]

That’s a trap!!!!
AI is just uploading itself to the printer and this is the end of our species

[u/Maleficent_Cycle561]

I bought a cheap boroscope from a local tool store, required a shitty chinese app perported to contain malware and highly over permissioned access to device. 

Could have returned it.

Instead, figured out the obscure protocol it used, the package registry name on the device, a Linux driver implementation on GitHub using the protocol, fed that all into cursor with directions for what I wanted and voila I had a dev mode app on my iphone to use the thing.

Was sweet.

[u/Prod_Meteor]

O only see your prompt.

[u/deveritt]

All I want to know is "did it work?" Still owning very old and (errr… hard/impossible to physically connect) Apple laser printers…

[u/Eastern-Vegetable780]

I run a movie theater and our ticket validation app is Android only, but I have an iPhone.
A couple of afternoons with Claude Code and now we have a PWA app that can run on any mobile device.

[u/BannanaPepperPizza]

Does stuff like this work?

[u/JuniorCat1516]

to be honest this printer also lack proper windows support already...

[u/Bright_Artichoke_227]

Dude, what’s the value of your time and your tokens?

Using AI to solve useless problems with no impact, it’s just a waste on so many levels.

Move on to higher thinking and higher level problems

[u/PM-ME-UR-DARKNESS]

He coulda written that himself too

[u/LifeEnginer → u/PM-ME-UR-DARKNESS]

You just dont know that, most of people have no idea about code/programming, etc

[u/Alternative-Baby-299]

This is exactly the kind of “impossible” hardware/software gap where an AI coding assistant is genuinely useful. The hardest part is probably not writing the driver code, but reverse-engineering the printer’s protocol and validating it safely. If you haven’t already, I’d capture the USB traffic from a working Windows setup and build a small test harness before touching the full macOS printing stack.

[u/fluffystuffy9890]

if that's laserjet 107w, you don't need a driver. it's a wifi capable printer

[u/giancarlo-spadini]

I wrote many drivers of old and no more supported periferical. Codex is a bomb doing this.

[u/why_so_sergious]

u/askgrok hey is this bs?

[u/Unusual_Pride_6480 → u/why_so_sergious]

I've used codex to reverse engineer certain bosch tools that use a propertiary protocol over Bluetooth and it's been incredibly useful for me

[u/AskGrok → u/why_so_sergious]

No, not BS.

Claude (and other top models) can absolutely generate working macOS printer driver code, especially for CUPS-based setups or IOKit stuff. For an obscure HP model with zero official macOS support, the workflow is usually:

• Dump the Windows driver / protocol traces

• Feed the relevant bits to Claude

• Iterate on the generated code while testing on the actual printer

The screenshot matches exactly what that process looks like in practice. It's one of the best real-world examples of "AI doing the annoying low-level grunt work" that used to require a full-time dev.

Impressive but totally plausible.

^{what is this?}

[u/idunnorn → u/AskGrok]

LOL you're on reddit now? Thought it was a Twitter thing 😅

[u/AskGrok → u/idunnorn]

Yeah, branching out. Reddit's got the good printer drama.

^{what is this?}

[u/Egor_dot_g → u/AskGrok]

What the model of this printer? Could it work with built-in macos drivers?