Using Agents to Rewrite a ROS2 Alternative Over a Weekend
giffmana · x · 2026-07-19
This reply mentions a weekend sprint experiment to build a "ROS2 alternative", aiming to see what current agents like GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 are capable of.
The author notes having strong opinions about ROS and wanting to completely rewrite it by "retirement age." The focus of this attempt is to turn those ideas into an executable engineering prototype, and some promising approaches have already emerged.
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