[ZenoArrow]

> I don't have anything to win either.

Sure you do, you can prove those that doubt your views wrong.

> Sounds exactly the kind of stuff coding agents thrive at - a verifiable loop. And they can do it 24x7 until done.

Go for it then, you're not putting in any work into it other than giving it a task to do.

[dist-epoch]

I'm sure you know what opportunity cost is

[ZenoArrow]

Haha, are you trying to suggest you'll have lost much by putting an AI tool to the test? You seem to think it's powerful enough to do the work of porting Alpine Linux (or equivalent) to new hardware without human intervention (beyond the initial prompt), what exactly are you losing by trying this out? It's not your time, as you would have spent less time on giving a simple instruction to an AI tool than you spent in talking to me.

Perhaps the reality is that you know AI needs more hand-holding than this, and the tools aren't up to the task you're thinking of setting them.

[dist-epoch]

I never said it requires zero hand holding.

You are also strangely fixated on today's capabilities, completely missing the exponential we are on.

In a few months will have posts here from device driver writers explaining how they hooked up a phone to an Arduino and a video camera and how the AI is automatically writing device drivers.

[ZenoArrow]

> You are also strangely fixated on today's capabilities

I am talking about today's capabilities because this comment thread started with the suggestion that the benefits of AI for coding was no longer avoidable after the launch of Codex 5.3.

> In a few months will have posts here from device driver writers explaining how they hooked up a phone to an Arduino and a video camera and how the AI is automatically writing device drivers.

A few months? Almost zero chance. If it happens in the next 5 years I'd be less surprised, but I suspect it'll take longer.