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Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bitwize on Thursday November 05, 2026 @09:38PM (#50387471)
Developed with techniques that were state-of-the-art at the time.

The state of the art has changed.

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:35PM (#50388254)
You still need documentation. Asahi on M1 is 7 years old, with no ACPI substitute.

It may shock you to hear that coding was never the bottleneck for emulation or reverse-engineering.

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by orangecat on Friday November 06, 2026 @12:18AM (#50388512)
It may shock you to hear that coding was never the bottleneck for emulation or reverse-engineering.

Yes, and LLMs work well for the non-coding parts too. Pointing Claude at Gravity's repos has gotten Linux running well on my M4 Pro mini, with GPU acceleration as of a few days ago. So either I'm a genius or LLMs are pretty good at this, and I'm not a genius.

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:28AM (#50389632)
The Honeykrisp driver and upstream M4 Linux support was written by Asahi, not Gravity: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-SoCs
Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bitwize on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:59AM (#50389071)
LLMs are arguably even more superhuman for the bits that do matter for reverse engineering, than they are at coding!
Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by bigyabai on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:24AM (#50389609)
I'll believe it when I see it. As I said, there are still unsolved problems that AI can't fix taking shots in the dark.

I have no particular love for Asahi, but they've made 10x more progress than the vibe coded alternatives.

Re:The Hackintosh Reborn with AI by cromka on Friday November 06, 2026 @02:25AM (#50389240)
> The state of the art has changed.

I keep repeating myself, but make an effort to check the "state of the art" of the crap they added to their kernel tree.