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 (bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social) and Adam Leventhal (bsky.app/profile/ahl.bsky.social).
Previously on Oxide and Friends
• OxF s03e24 - Fork in the road for Terraform? (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/fork-…)
• OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/engin…)
• OxF s06e01 - Predictions 2026!! (oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predi…)
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• BattleTris on github (github.com/bcantrill/BattleTris)
• Surge 2011 ~ Closing Plenary ~ Theo Schlossnagle (youtube.com/watch?v=ieCTIPG43no)
• From the Governor of Delaware (bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social/post/3m…)
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