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LLM Slop is Ruining Projects Dealing With Sony Consoles
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PS5 Linux Dev Drops Project After "Slop Kiddies" Cash in on Crucial Exploit
Andy Nguyen, the developer behind the PS5 Linux project that released earlier in 2026, has officially declared that he will be stepping away from the PS5 modding scene before the release of support for Linux on the PS5 Pro that was under development.
In an emotionally charged message on X, the developer said that his work is "all down the sink," thanks to changes in the PS5 modding community heralded by LLM coding assistants. He explains that the modding scene is now "just a bunch of noobs using LLMs and writing hacks they don't even understand," going on to say that "slop kiddies" found the last remaining Hypervisor bug in the PlayStation 5 Pro and reported it to Sony.
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PS5 Linux lead quits as open-source projects have become “a bunch of noobs using LLMs” that “they don’t even understand”
Iconic PlayStation hacker and homebrew developer Andy ‘TheFlow0’ Nguyen has abandoned the ongoing PS5 Linux project due to the rise of AI vibe-coders in open-source spaces.
Nguyen, who famously created the first kernel exploit for the PlayStation Vita, has spent over a decade creating exploits and homebrew for PlayStation systems. As one of the leaders behind the ongoing PS5 Linux project, which brought modern PC gaming to the console, the developer was also bringing the full Linux OS experience to Sony’s PS5 with miraculous results.
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Video Cardz ☛ PS5 Linux developer quits
Andy Nguyen, better known as TheFloW, says he is stepping away from PlayStation 5 development and ending his work on PS5 Linux. Nguyen had planned to complete PS5 Pro support and release it in 2027, but says those plans have now been abandoned.
The decision follows the discovery and disclosure of what Nguyen describes as the only remaining PS5 hypervisor vulnerability. Nguyen says he had already discovered the same bug but deliberately kept it private. His plan was to preserve the vulnerability until after GTA 6 launched, giving users a chance to buy the game while retaining access to a firmware version that could potentially run Linux.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip ‘broken wide open’ after 26 years — chemical decapping and four years of reverse engineering unlocks MechaCon secrets
The ‘magic security chip’ inside the original PlayStation 2 has been successfully reverse engineered and dumped after four years of effort.