From a15cf5b076aa0573fdc238725ffeb27cedca25c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wilkie Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:29:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Adds Dr. Amer acknowledgment. --- README.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index afe081d..2896a15 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ And some interesting developer diaries exist for the different stages of develop TBD -## Acknowledgements +## Acknowledgments The following people made significant code contributions to the first XOmB and suitably encouraged this new incarnation: @@ -75,6 +75,8 @@ The following people made significant code contributions to the first XOmB and s * Steve Klabnik * Andrew Tribone +We are in the debt of Dr. Ahmed Amer-- systems professor, expert 'it depends' advocate, and steadfast voice of reason-- for being a great mentor to all of us through our systems journey. + ## AI Development This project was developed with assistance from the Claude AI agent as primarily an experiment to see how well an AI in late 2025 could handle the task of writing an exokernel while heavily supervised. It was very bad at it, but nonetheless managed to eventually miss enough rakes to produce something coherent after a lot of hand holding. It kept assuming in its drunken daydreams that problems were due to compiler or emulator bugs instead of its own incompetence. I can relate. Yet, when it was told to consider the (what feels like obvious) actual problem, it could course-correct adequately enough. Some of the structure it chose was eerily familiar... like... did it steal this from the original XOmB? Am I plagiarizing† myself? This all to say: some of this code is its hallucinations.