Once a year I just poke at ChatGPT and try to solve some not so common task with it.

I’m a Linux user, last time I tried to forward a MIDI stream to Minecraft with the help of ChatGPT. On Pipewire, Java won’t pick up any MIDI sources by default. I was going back and fourth with it for around an hour while it was trying to make me install software for different audio servers and was very confident that this is the correct way. When I get frustrated enough, I do my regular searching routine. In this case, 10 minutes of searching led me to this:

modprobe snd_virmidi

I literally needed to modprobe one driver. Java starts to see Pipewire’s MIDI bridge after that. Experiencing this once in a while makes me very confident that this thing would be extermely toxic for anything I do.

You can also ask it about something you are an expert at. The amount of stuff it gets wrong is insane.

The one I compiled. The benefits are not that obvious. If you are not into that sort of stuff, I would not recommend it.

But yes, if you don’t support as wide of a range of hardware, you can usually squeeze a bit more performance out of your kernel.

Although, most processing time is spent not in kernel code. There will be a difference of course, especially if you know where to look for it, but nothing groundbreaking most of the time.