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Dev taps Claude Code to craft custom printer driver for macOS

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Unsupported platform? Is that even a thing anymore?

There's a new and very helpful use case for AI coding agents: designing drivers for devices, such as old printers, that were never meant to work with a particular operating system.

Kuber Mehta, a New Delhi, India-based developer and founder of PolyThink, has published an account of how he coaxed Anthropic's Claude Code into creating a macOS driver for his HP Laser 1008a, for which HP offers only Windows and Linux drivers.

"My HP Laser 1008a is a rebadged Samsung host-based printer that speaks a proprietary raster language (SPL3), and it has no macOS driver and no AirPrint," Mehta explained in a blog post. "So on paper it just does not print from a Mac. This is the (lightly redacted) transcript of me and Claude Code getting it working anyway."

The GitHub repofor the driver –...

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