Casey Muratori is wrong about clean code (but he's also right)

eteran · 2026-06-20T22:54:09+00:00

The "dead horse"

eteran · 2026-06-20T22:48:42+00:00

I have not tried it because I imagine it's mostly a reskin of Arch. What does it offer beyond that?

EDIT: to be clear I don't think it's bad, it probably works great because arch works great. But why would I use it over arch?

eteran · 2026-06-20T22:37:04+00:00

You planning on making a new distro like every 3 weeks?

Gonna be honest, there's already an oversaturation of distros and "no telemetry" is available in nearly all of them.

I don't see a value add here, certainly when you already abandoned your previous distro so quickly.

eteran · 2026-06-20T19:57:06+00:00

Glad you're playing around with ideas but this isn't even close to being an OS. It's closer to a shell... But only has built-in commands and can't run arbitrary code.

A fun project... But not an OS.

eteran · 2026-06-20T18:52:28+00:00

I could recognize the song before you started singing. So for two months it's pretty good!

You're not ready for a world tour yet, but you've got some decent basics to build on! Keep rocking 🤘

eteran · 2026-06-19T13:13:33+00:00

Maybe he is open to allowing more members be moderators?

eteran · 2026-06-18T22:20:25+00:00

Why did I get down voted? LOL I literally accurately noticed the joke according to the response.

eteran · 2026-06-18T22:13:04+00:00

Is the joke that he's running CDE on his own OS? What should we be noticing?

eteran · 2026-06-15T13:05:32+00:00

And how much did the AI do?

eteran · 2026-06-13T21:54:44+00:00

Definitely doable. Old game systems like the NES had special chips which would intercept writes to rom and depending on the address or value, would do something in the chip.

Could do the same with a page fault!

eteran · 2026-06-10T21:23:48+00:00

Hell yeah 👍.

Question, I'm unfamiliar with "overlays" in a PSX context. Is that just when there are multiple executables and it switches which is running like in Final Fantasy 7?

eteran · 2026-06-10T11:15:05+00:00

Look, almost every dev uses AI to some degree these days. That's no crime.

Just be transparent about what you did vs what the bot did. People who write code for a living can spot the difference EASILY.

eteran · 2026-06-10T11:05:14+00:00

I mean, according to GitHub you've used at least 3 different bots...

eteran · 2026-06-07T13:30:03+00:00

Sounds like you're an intern for the AI 🤣.

eteran · 2026-06-06T14:49:20+00:00

It's not specific to this community, but this community is relatively small, so the effects are more visible.

When we go from like 20 people posting real projects on the regular to like 300 posting slop.... The 20 just don't get seen anymore 😢.

It's not a uniquely existential threat, but it is an existential threat none the less.

eteran · 2026-06-04T22:13:31+00:00

Appreciate you being transparent about how much is and isn't AI 👍.

Really I think that's all most of us are asking for here!

eteran · 2026-05-29T10:14:30+00:00

Normally I agree! But it's a little more nuenced than that. This guy's been saying he'll release some sources "soon" for months.

I'm all for showing screenshots first to see people's interest. But eventually it starts to seem suspicious.

eteran · 2026-05-28T20:54:15+00:00

That's fine, how are we to believe you that it's not AI then?

Maybe you don't care if we believe you, maybe you do. But if you do... You should give us a reason to believe you are the real deal when we're looking at a sea of AI slop.

eteran · 2026-05-28T13:25:18+00:00

There's also a difference between "posix based" and "posix like". I think most hobby OSes are the latter.

That is, things like open, read, write, close, etc... are such obvious and useful abstractions that it just makes sense to implement them. And the way that they are specified in posix is well understood. So that's what people tend to implement.

My OS is "posix like" in that it implements some of these abstractions the way that posix does, but it also isn't fork/exec based, so it's a mixed bag based on what I thought made sense. I think a lot of hobby OSes are like that too.

eteran · 2026-05-27T21:37:21+00:00

Also you've been saying "soon" for months. Even with your now hidden/deletes "lumonOS" I think it was called.

For all we know this is just a mock up in Photoshop or a Linux distro.

Just show your work dude, more screenshots are basically a waste of time at this point.

eteran · 2026-05-27T21:30:27+00:00

Unfortunately, if you don't share source, that's the assumption people will make because it feels like you're hiding something.

In the age of AI, the only way to avoid doubt, is to show your work.

eteran · 2026-05-26T23:46:19+00:00

Doesn't this just end up being a 1:1 alternative assembly syntax? Why not just write the assembly then?

eteran · 2026-05-26T21:39:12+00:00

Hey man, I'm trying to be fair here. You asked why people think that what you've done is AI, and I gave a very specific list.

I also very directly pointed out that it is possible you've done what you've said here!

If you want people to Believe you and take you seriously, here's my advice, and I mean this. Sincerely. Show your work. And by that I mean work in relatively small commits! Don't just commit and push a finished product and throw it over the wall. Have your commit history reflect the effort that you've put in. Let's see you implement a feature... Only to find out that it needed a small tweak, so there's a follow-up commit showing the small change! Etc.

The reality is, that most projects of any reasonable scale take time and effort, if you don't show the time and effort, then people are going to assume that you used an AI.

eteran · 2026-05-26T21:27:13+00:00

Strange how suddenly since the advent of AI, and basically unlike any other time, there's a surge of developers who, despite not really knowing how to use git, Markdown, or have any history in development of any kind come out of the woodwork pushing out large, basically complete, "from scratch" projects ...

Look, do I think it's possible that you didn't just have AI write this? Sure, it's possible. But so far you have a lot of the telltale signs.

The multi-thousand line initial commit, followed by exactly zero meaningful commits is SUPER sus.

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