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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: 0s | source
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bgwalter ◴[08 Sep 25 11:32 UTC] No.45167018[source]▶
There is literally a GitHub repository, six years old, that ports an out-of-tree ftape driver to modern Linux:

https://github.com/Godzil/ftape

Could it be that Misanthropic has trained on that one?

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lloydatkinson ◴[08 Sep 25 11:44 UTC] No.45167112[source]▶
> Maybe this driver have problems on SMP machines.

> Maybe this driver have problems on 64Bit x86 machines.

Ouch. The part where it says it’s not possible to use a normal floppy and the tape flip anymore seemed odd enough, but those last points should scare anyone away from trying these on anything important.

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1. bgwalter ◴[08 Sep 25 11:53 UTC] No.45167184[source]▶
Yes, Godzil's repo could have the issues you point out but still give hints to Claude what APIs to replace. Or the latest possibly-Claude-plagiarized version perhaps has the same issues.