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A coding agent on a 1987 Commodore Amiga 500 with a 7MHz CPU and 1 MB of RAM

What happened

Introducing Agent 500: a native coding agent on a 1987 Commodore Amiga 500 with a 7MHz CPU and 1 MB of RAM. A Go process acts as a virtual modem, translating the Amiga serial protocol to model API calls and back. This is what it would have been like if ChatGPT came out in 1988

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  1. First appeared on Hacker NewsHacker News

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