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The AI fixed the capture card driver problem he had been sitting on, and posted the fix

The AI took care of an Epiphan VGA2USB driver problem he had been sitting on, driver posted on GitHub.

How it works

  1. The AI takes care of the VGA capture driver fault
  2. Works out the fix
  3. The driver is posted on GitHub for others

Why it’s worth knowing

Old hardware faults die of neglect; this one got an agent's full attention.

Where it’s from

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

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