It needs good feedback. Agentic systems like Roo Code and Claude Code run compilers and tests until it works (just gotta make sure to tell it to leave the tests alone)

I used Claude 3.7 to upgrade my eslint configs to flat and upgrade from v7 to v9 with Roo Code and it did it perfectly

Seppoland has become a more and more appropriate term

Beautiful. My favourite way to describe computers is “we convinced sand to think”

It really was. I forgot to mention in my comment that the sun machines were also really cheap so, you know, capitalism.

Unfortunately, the lisp machine didn’t gain traction because the start-up times were so long and I believe this is due to it doing lots of internal checks which was awesome but unfortunately things like the Sun SPARCstation won because it was crazy fast although buggy