This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris
Bryan and Adam discuss the process of restoring a software project--BattleTris--untouched and unbuilt in over 20 years! How did LLMs help restore code Bryan started in the mid-1990s and what does that teach us about developing and maintaining software in the future?
Your hosts were Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal.
Previously on Oxide and Friends
OxF s03e24 - Fork in the road for Terraform?
OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age
OxF s06e01 - Predictions 2026!!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
BattleTris on github
Surge 2011 ~ Closing Plenary ~ Theo…
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