Yeah, I think most success stories in AI seem to come from ports, or from projects where a deliberate architecture has been laid by humans who understand it, and AI is sprinkling features on top. Adding features and drivers to a Linux distro seems like one of those places where AI is uniquely well positioned to bring value, because the foundation has already been laid.
I wrote a post the other day on how agentic code still needs this kind of architectural foundation to not end up in a tangled mess. It might interest someone:
https://ljtn.github.io/epiq/blog/the-soft-fabric-of-agentic-...
anecdotally this has been a huge help for my projects. I'm seeing AI one-shot porting from one library/framework to another with very minimal handholding. It used to be that these decisions needed to be thought through a lot because they were hard to change later on
But the article showed that that the port/translation of an established app resulted in a mess anyways. Looks like even with a good foundation it's prone to fail.
