My next few weeks will be a bit messy, anyone around Verona Venezia and Bari β yes, aware of the geography.
Really interested in strong AI opinions I can disagree with :-)
I bought 1TB of optane memory as a joke, to keep my dual Xeon server with 2x V100 32GB the perfect pre-covid machine dream.
Turns out it will be very useful now.
A thing I learned in the past 24hrs: based on the tour of Venice given to @dadarstan and @rhatr yesterday, being a tourist guide is not a career path for me, in case this AI thing really goes the wrong way for engineers.
My system now works in mysterious ways. Last week was distracting to say the least, and I completely forgot I left it running after my codex subscription weekly limit was exhausted. Clearly was reset today, and I just found this in the logs.
The agent doesn't even care explaining what it is doing. Clearly modeling the autonomous programmer after openclaw is not the right call. :-)
Asked the new agent that will handle my next system to learn the basics of project management and apply that to a multiagent system. It had six hours.
This is why agents will never be Real Software Engineers. They respect deadlines.
Came to Venice for a family matter. Left my multi-agent system running back in Cambridge.
Itβs been autonomously advancing my personal OS rewrite (MurgiaHack NUX) β 132 commits and counting.
Fully autonomous planning.
They spent half a day documenting everything, cleaned up the build system, then implemented IOMMU support.
I asked why they put it directly in the kernel instead of generalizing into the common NUX library.
Their answer: βToo early to settle on a portable interface.β Exactly what I would have done.
This is real Autonomous Engineering. And itβs ridiculously fun!
The hard, but hilarious lesson learned today, is that this works _only_ when left untouched. :-)
I created a openclaw-like agent to interact with the pipeline, and it overreacts into action like an anxious person high on caffeine.