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		corysama 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work? What does "MESA drivers" refer to here? I'm guessing it's not GPU drivers from https://mesa3d.org/

throwup238 14 days ago [–]

No those don’t work in most cloud VMs but MESA provides llvmpipe/softpipe implementations for Vulkan, OpenGL, etc. They’re software renders so relatively slow but work in headless VMs like Claude Code for web environments.

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