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Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver

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925 points dmitrybrant | 1 comments | 07 Sep 25 23:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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unethical_ban ◴[08 Sep 25 00:14 UTC] No.45163504[source]▶
Neat stuff. I just got Claude code and am training myself on Rails, I'm excited to have assistance working through some ideas I have and seeing it handle this kind of iterative testing is great.

One note: I think the author could have modified sudoers file to allow loading and unloading the module* without password prompt.

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1. frumplestlatz ◴[08 Sep 25 01:12 UTC] No.45163836[source]▶
> One note: I think the author could have modified sudoers file to allow loading and unloading the module* without password prompt.

Even a minor typo in kernel code can cause a panic; that’s not a reasonable level of power to hand directly to Claude Code unless you’re targeting a separate development system where you can afford repeated crashes.