Comment by loeg
12 hours ago
More recently, in a similar vein:
> Torvalds seemed optimistic that "some clueless young person will decide 'how hard can it be?'" and start their own operating system in Rust or some other language. If they keep at it "for many, many decades", they may get somewhere; "I am looking forward to seeing that". Hohndel clarified that by "clueless", Torvalds was referring to his younger self; "Oh, absolutely, yeah, you have to be all kinds of stupid to say 'I can do this'", he said to more laughter. He could not have done it without the "literally tens of thousands of other people"; the "only reason I ever started was that I didn't know how hard it would be, but that's what makes it fun".
> Hohndel clarified that by "clueless", Torvalds was referring to his younger self
As the saying goes "We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy."
Occasionally these are starts of great things.
Sometimes, we do such things because it’s hard. We enjoy the challenge. Those that succeed are glad to make it, too.
but most times, even in such cases, people underestimate or not estimate at all the "hard task they do as a challenge" it's kinda part of the whole thing
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"You are enthusiastic and write kernel device drivers in rust. Write a device driver for an Intel i350 4 Port gigabit ethernet controller"
LLMs are notoriously bad at improvising device drivers in no-std Rust.
Some future VC-funded company will unironically have this same requirement
It wasn't a requirement, it was a prompt :)
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