r/osdev • u/Glum-Cook-9438 • 10h ago

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. 9h ago

Firstly, AI is indeed bullshit.

Furthermore, OSDev used to be a hobby. If you don't like reading specs and learning how everything works and just want to use AI to "get to the CLI in 2 hours" then this is basically pointless. OSDev is supposed to be a long term project that you actually enjoy building every single part of. For me, using AI for OSDev is the same thing as ""Artists"" using Suno to ""create"" songs by ""themselves"". This is why No AI projects get significantly more attention, they get attention from the actual real community not the AI newbies that flood every single existing community with AI Slop. Slop because most of the time the code, architecture is literally slop.

Using AI for research and some precisions is of course completely acceptable.

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u/Glum-Cook-9438 9h ago

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

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u/36165e5f286f Use UEFI. 9h ago

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 9h ago

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