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As I write this, Hack, the text-based dungeon crawler from my childhood, has just been fully ported to JavaScript by an AI agent. I handed the agent the old PDP code and told it to go. When I checked after a couple hours to ask why it was taking so long, it replied: it was working, and that thirteen of twenty-three test sessions were already passing parity. It continued its coding process without interruption all night, and eventually expanded its work to 202 passing tests, achieving near 100% coverage with verified parity to the original.

davidbau.com Does Computer Science Still Exist? davidbau.com A Dabbler's Weblog << The Art of Wanting | Main | Dario's Weird Race to the Top >> March 20, 2026 Does Computer Science Still Exist? I have always seen the computer as a tool that gives us new ways to think. Does it still? As I write this, Claude Code has just finished making a Javascript port of Hack , the text-based dungeon crawler from my childhood. I handed the agent the old PDP code and told it to go. When I checked after a couple hours to ask why it was taking so long, it replied: it was working, and that thirteen of twenty-thr

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