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The AI with robotic hands and eyes built the controller for real hardware porting work

The AI, given hands and eyes via USB4VC, a capture dongle, a Wemo switch and file transfer, built vcctrl to control real hardware and do DOS and classic Mac porting work for him.

How it works

  1. The AI, given hands and eyes through a capture setup, a smart switch and file transfer
  2. Builds a controller to operate real hardware
  3. And does old-system porting work with it

Why it’s worth knowing

Hands and eyes as peripherals is the year's defining hack.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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