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1. pluc · 1789751862 · focus · HN ↗

   It's cool to see things that were entirely unnecessary popping up with the help of AI. Nobody ever cared enough to do this, nobody is going to use this, but now we can just shit it out knowing full well nobody is going to care. Just had to sacrifice humanity's knowledge and a few professions to get there.

   1. tombert · 1789752046 · focus · HN ↗

      Uh, what?

      I actually think a lot of people cared enough to do this; the entire Wine project sort of exists specifically because people want Windows software on Linux.

      I know multiple people who have said that they won't use Linux specifically because it doesn't have the full-fat desktop version Office on there.

      "Unnecessary"? Sure, I guess, I don't like MS Office and I don't use it, but a lot of people seem to really like it, whether or not they should.

      1. pluc · 1789752342 · focus · HN ↗

         I'm not talking about WINE, I'm talking avout what you had Claude build to use it.

         If this were a proof of concept and you had the ability to say what you did different to make it work better than previous attempts that would be great, but i don't think you know.

         1. tombert · 1789752668 · focus · HN ↗

            The stuff that was done differently was the shim to get the activation working, and the fact that modern Wine has native Wayland support that helps avoid a lot of graphical glitches.

            I'm not entirely sure what your point is though? Are you suggesting I don't know how to write software? I've been doing this for a very long time, well before generative AI.

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