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Is this about technical blogs where the image is either of technical nature or something else?

I'd think in the former case it doesn't matter and it's mostly the text I care about to be interesting and personal. I don't read non technical blogs so I don't know what if ai images are a turnoff.

I tried the $40 plan. Seems ok to get some real work done. The model seems quite capable and being able to read the reasoning trace is bonus. It's not the fastest though.

This looks awesome for boot firmware. How large is the decompressor code?

Most are using synopsys IP I think, so they don't really have a say in it.

IANAL but on a technical level I'd say it's clean room and not subject to the original copyright for at least 2 reasons: the LLM for sure hasn't seen init code for this platform before, and there is no leak on the internet. It hallucinated register semantics often, suggesting it hasn't seen the original code. Also, coreboot code looks and, to some extent, works differently than the vendor reference code that I have seen for other platforms, making it not subject to any copyright claims. Lastly no copyright claim can be made on LLM generated works, but given the non-negligible human effort put into this, I'm not sure what the upshot is here. Still non copyrightable does not mean it's not free, it's something like public domain.

You can get much more modern hardware with firmware. This was mostly an expirement to see how good LLM are at reverse engineering. Given that it went well I think making fully free (without Intel) x86-side firmware is possible.

Author of that blog article here. I could probably do a port if you're willing to test and provide some dumps while running the vendor firmware.