A cheap model led his porting project into changes that left the machine unbootable

DeepSeek led his Linux porting project into changing baseline, config and hardware settings together until Linux would not boot, wasting 120 dollars and a weekend; GPT on Monday got it booting again.

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The model leads the porting project into changing baseline, config and hardware settings together
Until Linux will not boot
Wasting 120 dollars and a weekend

Why it’s worth knowing

One change at a time is a rule written in weekends like this.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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