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Had a similar experience getting a niche app running under wine. The bot had to bring in a different open source renderer, patch dlls, adapt a mapping tool from

Had a similar experience getting a niche app running under wine. The bot had to bring in a different open source renderer, patch dlls, adapt a mapping tool from a different chip architecture to partly map and modify the binary, crazy stuff. Alternatives exist but are expensive, this got it working in an hour when doing it myself would probably be 2 weeks.

josephg 1mo ago
Last week I had Claude add support for aac audio to davinci resolve on Linux, just by patching the binary. It did almost exclusively with gdb and objdump, patching about 5 functions over an hour or two. I only got it to the proof of concept stage. The patch adds aac but breaks flac support in the process. And it only works for aac in mp4 container files. But I’m sure with a bit of time we could make a patch which works everywhere and is additive only. I say ‘we’ - I barely helped. Almost all the work was done by Claude. Here’s Claude’s report, if anyone wants to build on this work: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/87d38c2e-9ecb-4066-90cf-e0b2b345ea01?via=auto_preview#no_universal_links https://claude.ai/code/artifact/87d38c2e-9ecb-4066-90cf-e0b2...
- blensor 1mo ago
  Are you planning to develop this in the open somewhere. I would be more than interested to have that davinci capability as well
  - josephg 1mo ago
    Not sure yet. Maybe! I put those notes online so someone else could continue Claude’s work. Or get another agent to plug away at it.
  - josephg 1mo ago
    Got everything working and published here: https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix/releases https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix/releases
- jsjdjdndn 1mo ago
  "I only got it to proof of concept.... I'm sure with time" this is AI psychosis. LLMs by design product plausible output -- it ALWAYS seems like you just need a little more time. That's why the junkies are up all night playing with these things, and yet the next industrial revolution has NOT arrived. if this is the singularity where is my clothes folding bot, my cold fusion, and my cure for all cancers? Please do not post about things the bot almost did. Nobody cares. When you COMPLETE something with the bot you can post. The rest is delusions.
  - josephg 1mo ago
    The proof of concept works. You can use aac audio in resolve on Linux. It hasn’t been polished or productised, but it’s demonstrably working. If I got to this point on my own, I’d be very satisfied that I could finish the job.
    - kragen 1mo ago
      That would be a justifiable inference in that case. But you didn't get to this point on your own. You haven't learned the knowledge you would have learned getting to this point on your own. Claude didn't either; generally speaking, it doesn't learn. So it may be misleading to reason by analogy to the counterfactual where you had gotten to this point on your own. Claude may or may not be able to finish the job. You won't know until you try.
      - josephg 1mo ago
        > Claude may or may not be able to finish the job. You won't know until you try. Yes, it’s weak evidence. Not proof. That is why I was quite explicit about what it has and hasn’t accomplished. In my time with it, Claude seems fine at finishing up projects. And I’ve done enough reverse engineering to have a reasonably firm understanding of the outstanding work. I predict that Claude will have no problem finishing this up with some more guidance and tokens. You can of course have your own opinion, but I think it’s a bit much to claim I’m suffering from ai psychosis for having this expectation of its capabilities.

josephg 1mo ago

Last week I had Claude add support for aac audio to davinci resolve on Linux, just by patching the binary. It did almost exclusively with gdb and objdump, patching about 5 functions over an hour or two. I only got it to the proof of concept stage. The patch adds aac but breaks flac support in the process. And it only works for aac in mp4 container files. But I’m sure with a bit of time we could make a patch which works everywhere and is additive only. I say ‘we’ - I barely helped. Almost all the work was done by Claude. Here’s Claude’s report, if anyone wants to build on this work: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/87d38c2e-9ecb-4066-90cf-e0b2b345ea01?via=auto_preview#no_universal_links https://claude.ai/code/artifact/87d38c2e-9ecb-4066-90cf-e0b2...

blensor 1mo ago
Are you planning to develop this in the open somewhere. I would be more than interested to have that davinci capability as well
- josephg 1mo ago
  Not sure yet. Maybe! I put those notes online so someone else could continue Claude’s work. Or get another agent to plug away at it.
- josephg 1mo ago
  Got everything working and published here: https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix/releases https://github.com/josephg/resolve-aacfix/releases
jsjdjdndn 1mo ago
"I only got it to proof of concept.... I'm sure with time" this is AI psychosis. LLMs by design product plausible output -- it ALWAYS seems like you just need a little more time. That's why the junkies are up all night playing with these things, and yet the next industrial revolution has NOT arrived. if this is the singularity where is my clothes folding bot, my cold fusion, and my cure for all cancers? Please do not post about things the bot almost did. Nobody cares. When you COMPLETE something with the bot you can post. The rest is delusions.
- josephg 1mo ago
  The proof of concept works. You can use aac audio in resolve on Linux. It hasn’t been polished or productised, but it’s demonstrably working. If I got to this point on my own, I’d be very satisfied that I could finish the job.
  - kragen 1mo ago
    That would be a justifiable inference in that case. But you didn't get to this point on your own. You haven't learned the knowledge you would have learned getting to this point on your own. Claude didn't either; generally speaking, it doesn't learn. So it may be misleading to reason by analogy to the counterfactual where you had gotten to this point on your own. Claude may or may not be able to finish the job. You won't know until you try.
    - josephg 1mo ago
      > Claude may or may not be able to finish the job. You won't know until you try. Yes, it’s weak evidence. Not proof. That is why I was quite explicit about what it has and hasn’t accomplished. In my time with it, Claude seems fine at finishing up projects. And I’ve done enough reverse engineering to have a reasonably firm understanding of the outstanding work. I predict that Claude will have no problem finishing this up with some more guidance and tokens. You can of course have your own opinion, but I think it’s a bit much to claim I’m suffering from ai psychosis for having this expectation of its capabilities.