Ask HN: Can a NTFS driver for macOS be vibecoded?

3•albert_e•1h ago

Ran into this while swapping external drives between Windows and Mac -- it seems the only reliable way to keep the benefits of NTFS (journaling) and allow writes from MacOS is to use third-party $ commercial drivers.

I am not knowledgeble about what makes a driver so I asked (Gemini) -- and I am told this involves a fairly complex low level OS hooks and bypassing OS protections etc with a lot of edge cases -- so today's frontier models are unlikely to produce a reliable driver implementation.

I was surprised to hear. If we believe the AI marketing shouldn't this be solved relatively easily?

Comments

lidder86•1h ago

Quick Google https://github.com/ntfstool/ntfstool ?

sgt•53m ago

Depends what you mean by vibecoding. You need to deeply understand NTFS and filesystems in order to "vibe code" a driver. In other words, if you wouldn't be able to hand code one (given enough time and effort, of course, which would be tremendous), you wouldn't be able to instruct an AI to do so either.

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