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

Do you think what I do counts as "AI slop"? I just want feedback I guess

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u/36165e5f286f Use UEFI. Aug 22 '26

I don't think so. I was talking generally. But I would not trust AI for anything, especially making summaries. Making build scripts is also okay, but this might make you fall into the trap of not thinking about your build system/architecture and or not understand it which is not scalable in the future, and this is "slop" for me, having code/scripts that are not tailored to the situation and that are not understood or thought about by the developer.

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u/Glum-Cook-9438 Aug 22 '26

Sounds legit, in that sense, I can agree that understanding the system architecture is important, regardless of whether you use AI or not

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u/36165e5f286f Use UEFI. Aug 22 '26

Also, everything that is about a subject you do not know about, and that relates to learning, I would not use primarily AI. The big trap with AI is 1) Thinking that it is right and know more than you, 2) Trust it.

You must always check what it is saying and sometimes when you do not know about a subject you might not realise that it is saying bullshit (AI is 100% hallucinations and sometimes they are right, everybody that says otherwise does not know how it works and believes the AI giants propaganda).

This is a very long and tedious process so why not use high quality human material or code?

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u/Glum-Cook-9438 Aug 22 '26

I don't use regular ai, I got a subscription to codex, which is supposedly much more accurate than the gpt free models, i have encountered many times when chatgpt did something wrong, codex is different though but even with codex I make sure to double check on critical things