Missed marketing opportunity : Let AI Agents control any computer

ecliptik 16 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I do this for porting things to DOS. Was swapping a CF card back and forth between a 486 PC and my laptop that was running Claude and it was extremely tedious and required me to physically be at the system.

Automated it entirely by giving Claude hands/eyes/ears so it can take complete control of the 486 using a raspberrypi 5, a usb4vc HAT for PS/2 and a VGA capture device. Adding an ethernet card and a tcp/ip boot profile for FTP, Claude then can update binaries, test them, and gather logs. Now I just steer Claude and it handles interfacing with the machine for me.

https://github.com/ecliptik/vcctrl/tree/main/

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apexalpha 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unironically, yes. Easy to connect an AI to any device that supports (adapted) USB input.

Don't even need the HDMI or video the AI will prefer serial console.

	▲	pftburger 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t mean this ironically at all. I have a few serial to IP bridges I use to let agents help me debug stuff.