Everyone is talking about AI finding vulnerabilities and writing exploits. This week there was a quieter story I think matters more.
A developer had an HP Laser 1008a, a printer HP only ever made Windows drivers for. It never worked on Mac and never was going to, unless HP decided otherwise.
He sat down with Claude Code for about four hours. The AI reverse-engineered HP's proprietary SPL3 print language, ran HP's actual codec in a container to verify its work, and built a working native macOS driver for a printer the manufacturer had abandoned.
Nobody asked permission. Nobody filed a ticket. He just fixed his own printer.
That's the part that gets lost in the doom headlines. The same capability that finds a zero-day can bring a dead device back to life. It's a lever. What you point it at is the choice.
Benchmarks measure how well the model performs on tests. They don't measure this. One person, one afternoon, one problem that used to be unsolvable, solved.
That's the version of this technology I keep coming back to.
A developer had an HP Laser 1008a, a printer HP only ever made Windows drivers for. It never worked on Mac and never was going to, unless HP decided otherwise.
He sat down with Claude Code for about four hours. The AI reverse-engineered HP's proprietary SPL3 print language, ran HP's actual codec in a container to verify its work, and built a working native macOS driver for a printer the manufacturer had abandoned.
Nobody asked permission. Nobody filed a ticket. He just fixed his own printer.
That's the part that gets lost in the doom headlines. The same capability that finds a zero-day can bring a dead device back to life. It's a lever. What you point it at is the choice.
Benchmarks measure how well the model performs on tests. They don't measure this. One person, one afternoon, one problem that used to be unsolvable, solved.
That's the version of this technology I keep coming back to.
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