Claude writing printer drivers is impressive, but the real story is messier
I’m impressed, but not in the breathless “AI fixed hardware compatibility forever” way TechRadar seems to want. The interesting part here isn’t that Claude can spit out code for a macOS driver. It’s that someone who already understood enough about printers and driver architecture used Claude as a very fast, very patient pair programmer to grind through an ugly, obscure compatibility problem. That distinction matters. A printer that speaks a proprietary raster language and has no macOS support is
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