Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel driver

Re:Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel d... by jampekka on Monday September 08, 2025 @05:15AM (#45166165)

Saying boilerplate should exist is like saying every nail should have its own hammer.

Some amount of boilerplate probably needs to exist, but in general it would be better off minimized. For a decade or so there's sadly been a trend of deliberately increasing it.

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Re:Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel d... by kazinator on Monday September 08, 2025 @03:57PM (#45173148)

Rather, it is boilerplate that replicates hammers along with nails.

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Re:Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel d... by coldtea on Monday September 08, 2025 @05:58PM (#45174571)

>Saying boilerplate should exist is like saying every nail should have its own hammer

It's rather saying that we should have parts that join without nailing by now, especially for things we do again and again and again and again.

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Re:Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel d... by jama211 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @10:26PM (#45207010)

Did you read shouldn’t when they wrote should?

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Re:Using Claude Code to modernize a forgotten Linux kernel d... by jama211 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @03:46PM (#45202663)

I didn’t say it should exist, only implied it’s a practical inevitability for the moment.

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