Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
From:    Boraxman
Date:    Mon Oct 19, 2026 09:49

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 DM>   Re: Re: ai shit from bbs peop
 DM>   By: Boraxman to MRO on Sat
 DM> Oct 17 2026 01:09 pm

 > I think AI being able to program will bea boon.

 DM> Agree, but just not sure who it will be a boon for.

 > AI programing is akin to a compiler that generates source.

 DM> I use that analogy sometimes. There was a time when programmers looked
 DM> at compilers as a crutch ("real programmers write in assembly language
 DM> or even machine code!") - but that sentiment went away pretty quickly
 DM> and the same will happen with agentic progrmming.

 > AI programming gets good, obsolescence will be a thing of the past.  Why not
 > write a programfor MS-DOS that does what a Windows 10 CLI program does?

 DM> AI doesn't magically take away the constraints (e.g. limited
 DM> addressable memory) of legacy systems or the lack of infrastructure
 DM> (e.g. TCP/IP stack), so while it could be used for such a thing (port a
 DM> Windows CLI program to MS/PC-DOS), it can't work miracles. Given that
 DM> task, the first thing the AI agent would likely do is choose a "DOS
 DM> extender" to run the ported program under to get access to more memory.
 DM> And that's not really writing a program for MS-DOS anymore. --

Isn't there a TCP/IP stack for MS-DOS.

The hardware does have hard limits.  But lets take my computer.  ITs pretty
old, but more than powerful enough to run most applications.  Some dont run
becausethey use particular CPU instructions that my processor doesn't have.

That will soon be easy fixed.

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