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An AI coded driver broke my system file. Five hours to fix.

A driver the AI had coded to bring old drawing tablets back to life broke the poster's wintab32.dll file, even though the app it was based on never touches that file. Fixing it took 5 hours.

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How it works

  1. Tests an AI coded driver meant to revive old drawing tablets
  2. The driver breaks the wintab32.dll file
  3. Fixing the file takes 5 hours

Why it’s worth knowing

The driver was based on an app that never touches the wintab file, and it still broke that file.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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