Instead of continuing with the code, I spawned a fresh Pi session, and asked the agent to write a detailed specification of how the brcmfmac driver works

Planning markdown files are critical for any large LLM task.

Now, since Claude Code is banning accounts for usage of pi (or rather, how pi is configured to use Claude models), how complicated would it be to wire pi through Anthropic's harness and treat anthropic harness as a dumb shell?

For most people the main difference will be: Will it run and solve my problem? Soon we will see malware being put into vibe coded software - who will wants to check every commit for write-only software?

The person intentionally didn't put in much effort.

And it's incredible that they got a somewhat working wifi driver given just how little effort they put in.

I have no doubt that a motivated person with domain knowledge trying to make a robust community driver for unsupported hardware could absolutely accomplish this in a fraction of the time and would be good quality.

GPL-wise, I don't know how much is inspiration vs "based on" would this be, it'd be interesting to compare.

This looks like my Company peers, as long as there is any existing implementation they are pretty confident they can deliver, poor suckers that do the "no one has done it before" first pass don't get any recognition.

I didn’t write any piece of code there. There are several known issues, which I will task the agent to resolve, eventually. Meanwhile, I strongly advise against using it for anything beyond a studying exercise.

Months of effort and three separate tries to get something kind of working but which is buggy and untested and not recommended for anyone to use, but unfortunately some folks will just read the headline and proclaim that AI has solved programming. "Ubiquitous hardware support in every OS is going to be a solved problem"! Or my favourite: instead of software we will just have the LLM output bespoke code for every single computer interaction.

Actually a great article and well worth reading, just ignore the comments because it's clear a lot of people have just read the headline and are reading their own opinions into it.

What's more interesting to me is the licensing situation when this is done. Does the use of an LLM complicate it? Or is it just a derivative work which can be published under the ISC license [1] as well?

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license

How is this not copyright laundering?

I have exact MacBook and chipset that op is claiming to support.

The driver doesn't even compile without modifications.

It attach to the device, but you can't scan, associate or do anything.

Basically the whole driver is stubbed.

This is atrocious C code.

https://grafana.com/blog/generative-ai-at-grafana-labs-whats...

Don't use it and don't use Grafana.