Agents made my retro tech safe to use again and showed their real value as testers of ideas

Over the years, my home has become something of an Island of Misfit Kit because it’s filled with ancient computers, all of them well and truly out of support. Most still work but it was always inadvisable to use them, and more so since Mythos came along. So I mostly left them alone until a few months ago when I decided to see if an agent could help to revive a 15 year old device with a tiny CPU, an ancient version of Arch Linux , and a browser so old it lacks the necessary encryption to connect to the modern web. I let the agent SSH into the device, gave it full control (yes, yes, but I know what I'm doing, I promise) and then watched as over three hours the agent repeatedly failed to get a toolchain that would compile the latest cURL...

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