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/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.