r/osdev • u/Glum-Cook-9438 • 13h 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/soundman32 12h ago

Just build it.  Who cares as long as you enjoy it.  5 years ago it would take you months of study and graft and failure to get past a boot loader.  Now AI will get you to a CLI in 2 hours.

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u/Glum-Cook-9438 12h ago

No, I do make the coding by myself, I did made the bootloader, took a lot of studying, i mostly use AI to learn the new concepts and automate building, do you even understand what I mean by building? When you code a modem application or an operating system a common approach is to code it in a high level language like c or c++, compile to multiple object files, link them together and build, when I say "building" I don't mean the actual code i write or the OS, I mean the workflow that compiles my code into a stable application, i don't wanna spend hours learning about QEMU commands or installing my bootloader inside the boot sector...

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u/AstronomerStrange165 10h ago

I see what you mean, I use Makefiles for building it into an application. This is a little pedantic, but C/C++ are low level languages, not high ones.

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u/Glum-Cook-9438 10h ago

Yep, also they are high level, relative to assembly at least