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Literally, it comes down through the fire hose through this serial device, and the bottleneck itself is the serial device."
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Mesaroš had toyed with using the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi, but settled on the serial device instead, since everything worked "out of the box.
Key facts
- Kiro's CLI isn't suitable for a teleprinter capable of 30 characters per second, after all
- Mesaroš' project involved AWS Kiro, a Command Line Interface (CLI) and agentic coding service
- Mesaroš collects vintage hardware, with a stash that ranges from home computers made by Commodore and Sinclair, to a 1974 Data General Eclipse minicomputer and a plethora of Sun hardware
- The reporter built it for Kiro, but it uses the standard ACP protocol, so the reporter could easily plug in Claude Code or Codex
Summary
'It helps me stretch what the reporter can do in the current age of AI coding, and keeps their curiosity alive'. From the department of "pointless but still cool" comes word of some kit being repurposed as a terminal for AI agents. AWS developer advocate Darko Mesaroš has connected a teletype to a modern command-line interface to revel in the delight of interacting with today's AI technology via a combination of a DECwriter and fanfold paper, or the display and keyboard of a computer whose heyday ended 40 years ago. Mesaroš' project involved AWS Kiro, a Command Line Interface (CLI) and agentic coding service. Two problems needed solving: getting data to and from the teletype, and formatting the output to work on a piece of kit from another era of computing.