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No driver, no problem — devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an 'obscure' Windows-only…

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  • India-based developer Kuber Mehta uses Claude Code to create a macOS driver for the HP Laser 1008a
  • Previously, only the official drivers for Windows and Linux were available for the relatively obscure 2023 laser printer
  • The AI-generated driver was created over a series of meticulous prompts, and is now available via GitHub

The days of avoiding hardware that is incompatible with your operating system could be over. A developer based in India has created a macOS driver for a largely unknown HP printer using Claude Code, the agentic command-line coding tool developed by Anthropic.

Released in 2023, the HP Laser 1008a was issued with drivers for Windows and Linux, but not macOS. By using AI to generate a driver for macOS, developer Kuber Mehta has demonstrated that incompatible hardware could soon be a thing of the past.

Mehta has shared the code on GitHub and has also posted about...

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