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It's a shame because DHH seems to be going fully agentic (or at least that's his public stance), so no idea why he isn't rolling a proper distro. Looking at his
by rfgplk 2mo ago
It's a shame because DHH seems to be going fully agentic (or at least that's his public stance), so no idea why he isn't rolling a proper distro. Looking at his repo it's just pure shell scripts (why?) and using prebuilt software. He could have rolled a custom renderer + pipeline + other software needed to make a distro work (ie a modern KDE).
- grey-area 2mo agoYes he could have, if agents were capable of it. Why didn’t he? Why didn’t you?
- qarl2 2mo agoOh, I believe agents are fully capable of it. Would you like to issue a challenge like that? I'd love to demonstrate their capabilities to you.
- grey-area 2mo agoGo ahead and do it. Would love to see an improved Linux rewritten with agents. My personal belief is it would take a long time, lots of money and much human intervention/guidance but if you think they’re capable alone just do it this afternoon and see how it goes.
- qarl2 2mo agoCome come, let's spec something real. You seem extremely doubtful, why don't you let me show you?
- grey-area 2mo agoIn all seriousness, if you have the time the money and the inclination, you should give yourself a challenge like this, and try to complete it. It would be an interesting exploration of the limits of current agents. You don't need someone else to do that for you.
- qarl2 2mo agoWell - yes - I have. And the test came back positive. But it's always possible I'm just being naive in some way. An external challenge makes it more robust. I don't think I'd want to do an entire linux distro - it's needlessly large to test the hypothesis - but perhaps there's a part that you think would be an interesting challenge?
- dostick 2mo agoI am curious why you list custom renderer as the first requirement? Must a distribution have a custom one?