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I ported Vercel's fx coding agent to Windows 98 it talks to an LLM over a 56k modem and supports computer use (via MCP.exe) I now proudly run my own gamedev studio from 1999 my agents email each other in Outlook and store code on a network drive (git...

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Wayne L.vor 28 Tagen

@vercel clippy was an agent the whole time. he was just 30 years early and nobody gave him tool access

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alexey taktarovvor 28 Tagen

💯 I highly recommend this 1999 paper from Microsoft Research where they were trying to build a model to predict if an "agent" needs to wait or intervene and make action. something like that is just one jev call today. sadly they didn't get to release it "Principles of Mixed-Initiative User Interfaces" by Eric Horvitz

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Wayne L.vor 28 Tagen

@vercel ok this is going on the reading list. funny how in 99 the hard part was the model and now its mostly deciding when the agent should shut up

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Wyatt Brocatovor 28 Tagen

@vercel modem screech on every tool call would be elite

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Pranitvor 28 Tagen

@vercel This looks so good 🤩

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Tirupathi Poduguvor 28 Tagen

@vercel how long does one answer take over the modem? I'd want time to go make tea while the agent thinks

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alexey taktarovvor 28 Tagen

@vercel it's not that bad surprisingly! I had to speed up the video ofc, but text responses are ok. computer use was obviously much slower, for that I had to plug it into ethernet

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domhaulvor 28 Tagen

@vercel Someone picking up the landline is the new rate limit 💀

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Jatin Gargvor 28 Tagen

@vercel does the 56k modem latency make the agent unusably slow, or is the model small enough that request/response still feels real-time?

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王二狗的江湖vor 28 Tagen

@vercel The network drive was the shared context window all along.😂

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Phi Browservor 28 Tagen

@vercel minesweeper as the eval is perfect. what happens when the modem drops mid tool call, does it resume or redial and start over

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Trentvor 28 Tagen

@vercel A file checkout flag fits this setup: one agent owns an edit until it checks the file back in. Outlook can carry the handoff, while the network drive keeps two agents from overwriting each other’s work.

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seridarivus 🇷🇴vor 28 Tagen

@vercel A bundle of X, Grok and Cursor in one Xpass is the rare leak where the pricing tiers are the product.

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Vlad Sazonauvor 28 Tagen

@vercel Wow!

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ShadowAguyvor 28 Tagen

@vercel the 56k modem is the part that'll actually kill you. tokens over dialup is a special kind of patience

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John Moorevor 28 Tagen

@vercel Congrats on porting the fx coding agent to Windows 98. Love this, getting it to talk to an LLM over a 56k modem with computer use is great work.

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Kenneth Lauvor 28 Tagen

@vercel a 56k modem is the right speed for waiting on an llm

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John Roodvor 28 Tagen

@vercel this accidentally shows the whole architecture: a mailbox for messages, a network drive for state. multi-agent fleets in 2026 are still built from those two pieces — we just renamed them bus and object storage.

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anishvor 28 Tagen

@vercel a 56k modem is an accidental stress test for the agent loop, anything that assumes fast round trips will show up immediately

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Malte Ublvor 28 Tagen

@vercel Wow 😳

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