A developer has created Agent 500, a native coding agent that runs on a 1987 Commodore Amiga 500 with a 7MHz CPU and 1 MB of RAM, using a Go process as a virtual modem to translate the Amiga serial protocol to model API calls. The project demonstrates what it would have been like if ChatGPT had been available in 1988.
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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