You're absolutely right, and that is a fair critique! You have discovered a load-bearing gap, full stop.
In all seriousness, many people here, including myself, regularly receive 5 to 10 page long AI generated "documentation" where it is clear the "author" never made it past the first paragraph.
I guess it makes sense to just start a project "entirely in x86 assembly" if you never intend to read any of the code (although we should probably still be editing some of the generated Markdown...)
I read the whole thing and I'm still confused. I'm getting it's an OS that's very portable. What does forward, contract driven mean? Is this like an AI generated project, because it doesn't mention that anywhere.
i'm assuming if you know what the code is doing you don't need to audit them...
Right, who among us hasn't hand-written and shipped a twenty-two machines family of legacy operating systems atop a bespoke hypervisor you could explain from the top of your head.
Back in the Agile era the most applicable one was "I gave twenty times more for you than for any other commercial I've done. You are such PESTS! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?"
But in the AI era, the most applicable quote becomes: "It's full of, of, of things that are only correct because they're grammatical, but it's tough on the ear, you see..."
I have to concede that this should stand as a testament to the power of generative AI and what it allows ordinary developers to accomplish. It's hard to complain about "slop" when this guy magicked an 8086 graphical operating system out of the aether and then ported it to a number of different architectures, running efficiently in space and time on each.
If you still believe that writing software "by hand" isn't cooked, you haven't been paying attention.
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[ 0.63 ms ] story [ 10.4 ms ] threadI have no idea what this means. Also, the spam of top-level AUDIT-*.md files doesn't inspire confidence :)
In all seriousness, many people here, including myself, regularly receive 5 to 10 page long AI generated "documentation" where it is clear the "author" never made it past the first paragraph.
I lowkey hate that I knew exactly where this reference is from :'(
It's true that almost no-one RTFM
i'm assuming if you know what the code is doing you don't need to audit them...
Right, who among us hasn't hand-written and shipped a twenty-two machines family of legacy operating systems atop a bespoke hypervisor you could explain from the top of your head.
This project looks like a labor of love and its quite cool. Haters gonna hate, but if you actually go read the Markdown there's been a lot of elbow grease put in making this work: https://github.com/hmofet/unodos/blob/master/pc64/FIX-PLAN.m...
Edit: im fairly confident we're the first humans to lay eyes on that document
"What has actually been verified is a separate question from what builds, and PLATFORMS.md is the ledger that answers it:"
...that there is no way I'm going to try unodos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_Peas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE
Back in the Agile era the most applicable one was "I gave twenty times more for you than for any other commercial I've done. You are such PESTS! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want?"
But in the AI era, the most applicable quote becomes: "It's full of, of, of things that are only correct because they're grammatical, but it's tough on the ear, you see..."
We got a byte-identical seam though
If you still believe that writing software "by hand" isn't cooked, you haven't been paying attention.