Eric Raymon remembers:
I was writing some code the new-school way yesterday, prompting gpt-4.1 through aider, and for whatever reason my mind flashed back 50 years and the utter freaking enormity of it all crashed in on me like a tidal wave.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) December 27, 2025
And now I want to make you feel that, too.
In 1975 I ran…