Nina KalininaJan 10
💀 I just found a Windows 3 driver co-written by Copilot, it's up in GitHub somewhere. The code doesn't make much sense but supposedly it "compiles successfully". It's funny to see the LLM butchering the original DDK to force things to build in a way it wants. I'm not sure if the driver is ever going to work, and if it will, I don't think the driver will work the way the sloperator wants. Fun stuff.
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@nina_kali_nina
... Yikes, where is the fun in having something else do all the coding? If people can't be bothered themselves to code, they should become a (project) manager instead.

It's... Just so beyond me. What's he point even?

I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to find that code and then to realize it's sloperated :-/

Jan 10 at 7:34pmWeb
Show threadNina KalininaJan 10
@Aprazeth I think someone wanted to have a driver for their little computer - just like I did for the Apricot. But they didn't want to figure things out, they just wanted the thing to exist. LLMs promise that they can deliver you the thing you want, if you explain it in enough details. But I seriously doubt even the most advanced agent, or even an agent system, can make a working Windows 3 driver for a quirky computer, even if it has the feedback loop set up correctly, with the build scripts creating test Windows images to the screen capture to evaluate the output from the emulator. It would be a great success if it can even write MASM that will compile and won't crash the system immediately.
Show threadAprazethJan 10

@nina_kali_nina
I unfortunately am aware of the promises and how they more often then not utterly fall at it. The underlying technology was never intended nor optimized for it. Like using Word for a spreadsheet

As you said, they probably wanted something to exist but not do the work. I compare that to a drawing made by a child vs a copied painting. I'd want the drawing, not the copy. Yet I understand the barriers to entry. I have no answer to it, but hope this isn't it

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@nina_kali_nina
Apologies if this comes across as preachy. It isn't intended as such at all.

So, sorry if it did.

It's been one of those days.

Show threadNina KalininaJan 10
@Aprazeth not at all :3