{"slug": "a-coding-agent-on-a-1987-commodore-amiga-500-with-a-7mhz-cpu-and-1-mb-of-ram", "title": "A coding agent on a 1987 Commodore Amiga 500 with a 7MHz CPU and 1 MB of RAM", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Introducing Agent 500: a native coding agent on a 1987 Commodore Amiga 500 with a 7MHz CPU and 1 MB of RAM.\nA Go process acts as a virtual modem, translating the Amiga serial protocol to model API calls and back.\nThis is what it would have been like if ChatGPT came out in 1988", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-coding-agent-on-a-1987-commodore-amiga-500-with-a-7mhz-cpu-and-1-mb-of-ram", "canonical_source": "https://twitter.com/DXhusni/status/2090839488058859726", "published_at": "2026-08-22 11:49:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-22 12:13:38.309641+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Commodore Amiga 500", "Agent 500", "Go", "ChatGPT"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-coding-agent-on-a-1987-commodore-amiga-500-with-a-7mhz-cpu-and-1-mb-of-ram", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-coding-agent-on-a-1987-commodore-amiga-500-with-a-7mhz-cpu-and-1-mb-of-ram.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-coding-agent-on-a-1987-commodore-amiga-500-with-a-7mhz-cpu-and-1-mb-of-ram.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/a-coding-agent-on-a-1987-commodore-amiga-500-with-a-7mhz-cpu-and-1-mb-of-ram.jsonld"}}