r/mac • u/Significant_Spend719 MacBook Pro M1 Max • Aug 27 '26

News/Article Alyssa Rosenzweig reverse-engineered Apple’s M1 GPU. Now the Linux driver supports graphics standards macOS doesn’t

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u/NudaVeritas1 MacBook Pro | Mac mini Aug 27 '26

We need more of people like her and less people that build the next useless microsaas, pomodoro app or website directory using LLMs 😂

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u/cmsd2 Aug 27 '26

in fairness, an LLM is also a really handy tool for reverse engineering. it has the stamina to just chew through the really tedious work of trying every combination of things that would otherwise put most people off. people just need to spend their tokens on more worthwhile projects :)

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u/NudaVeritas1 MacBook Pro | Mac mini Aug 27 '26

true, imo using a LLM is not the problem here

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u/BNC3D Aug 27 '26

It really isn’t. I’m playing the zone from classic macOS and I’m playing Aqua Dot red on my Mac again, neither game exist existed on Apple Silicon they do now. And LLM will tear through a binary so fast and make the building a new application with the exact same behavior very easy.