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polishdude20 5 hours ago

I wonder if AI could make this work? Have there been any attempts to have AI do the work needed?

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wmf 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

AFAIK the M4 and M6 reverse engineering is AI-assisted.

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yjftsjthsd-h 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There's this: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gravity-Linux-M4-Mac-Mini-Alph...

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MBCook 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So we get a good article finally on someone actually doing impressive hacking and the response is “give it up, let AI“?

Where is the challenge or the fun or feeling of accomplishment in that?

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bigyabai 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not an unsympathetic position. macOS' current direction is controversial; many people want an alternative. They see Linux less as a hacking curiosity and more of an escape hatch.

Even with years of excellent, tireless reverse-engineering, Asahi's power management for M1 is not on-par with macOS, let alone what AMD/Intel chipsets get on Linux day-1. It's just inevitable that the hacking efforts will fragment into a fast-and-loose vs slow-and-steady mentality. And both of them will be equally right, since there is no official support for any of this hardware.

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		I get why someone may use AI to try to speed things up. Let’s put aside if that would even be useful at that point on the M4 I don’t understand complaining someone who spent their own time doing something isn’t using AI instead. Is it all that different from asking why someone painted something when AI could generate an image of a painting for you? It probably wasn’t intended as such but the sentiment that comes across to me is “why did you bother?” There are certainly people who would always be anti-AI. But there are a lot of people like me who continually bristle at how an AI booster seems to show up in every discussion implicitly implying you’re dumb for wasting your time by not using it. You know how people got really sick really fast on HN of people asking “why not Rust” on any discussion vaguely related to programming no matter how little it made sense? Or “A blockchain would fix that”? Yeah. That. Again.