Codex fixed his webcam: using coding agents to tame Linux
richardreis · x · 2026-09-14
Peter Steinberger shares that revisiting Linux with agents means "you can fix anything with a prompt now"—his Dell XPS webcam wasn't working, he told Codex, it rebooted, and things worked. Richard Reis asks which distro he's using. A neat demo of coding agents for system debugging.
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