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PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"

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  1. arnaudsm · · focus · HN ↗
    Misleading title, there's another major reason: it's an embargo agreement violation that jeopardizes Linux support on PS5.

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    1. sva_ · · focus · HN ↗
      &gt; The scene used to be a group of highly talented researchers, but now it is just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don&#x27;t even understand. Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left, which I had also found a while ago, and decided to report to Sony.

      Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually (which probably took a significant amount of time.) I can partly understand it, but I mean that&#x27;s also just the game that somebody else might find an exploit, LLMs just make it easier. LLMs finding bugs is not a bad thing, just sucks for enjoyers of open source software in this particular case.

      You can probably find more though.

      1. tetromino_ · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually

        Nope. He is salty because someone made public the secret exploit that Linux-on-PS5 apparently relies upon to bypass Sony&#x27;s hypervisor protection. Now Sony will fix the exploit, and there will be no more Linux on the PS5 until another exploit is found.

        1. sva_ · · focus · HN ↗
          Okay, I misunderstood. But it wasn&#x27;t particularly secret if &#x27;noobs&#x27; had access then?
          1. bothers · · focus · HN ↗

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            1. sva_ · · focus · HN ↗
              The vagueposting is off the charts. Whats the point of posting shallow dismissals?

              If two people independently from you find the same exploit using LLMs, it was clear that it&#x27;d leak at some point.

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