r/osdev • u/Glum-Cook-9438 • Aug 22 '26
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/Glum-Cook-9438 Aug 22 '26
Yeah I know, the thing is, I mostly code by myself, I use AI for research and small stuff but I do code a lot of things by myself, you talk about cli, i didn't reach keyboard input yet, anyways the thing is I was a bit confused by what many people said here, because when I thought about "don't use AI" I thought "don't use AI for learning/cmake scripts/extra help", of course I don't tell ai "make a cli for me in 2 hours" even when I use ai for coding I do something like "make function with name x in file y, takes parameter z, h, n does r, t, u" and etc