The Simplification Myth: Why AI is the Latest Chapter in a 60-Year Cycle
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History shows that tools designed to eliminate programmers actually increase the demand for human expertise by enabling more complex and ambitious software projects.
Before Wordle: DEC’s 1973 BASIC “WORD” and the Roots of Guessing Games
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Wordle’s core idea dates back to DEC’s 1973 BASIC game WORD, part of a broader, influential era of simple yet clever guessing games.
Reviving a 1990s Linux Tape Driver with AI in Two Evenings
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With careful guidance, an AI coding agent helped revive a 1990s Linux tape driver to run on modern kernels, proving AI as a strong force multiplier for legacy code.