Hooking a 1979 TRS-80 to an AI agent: one calendar task took 36 hours
DavidLinthicum · x · 2026-09-28
A comic long-form piece: the author wired a 4KB RadioShack TRS-80 into his AI agent stack. The framework took 11 minutes to load; the agent's first task — check his calendar and book a meeting — took 36 hours and resulted in a meeting with itself in 1979. Along the jokes come real takes: you can bolt an agent onto anything, latency becomes a governance feature (one slow auditable decision beats 400 fast ones), and the bottleneck is never where vendors say it is.
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