18 points draxen 3 hours ago 12 comments

I mean both things that are enabled by AI coding agents but also things we couldn't do because computers weren't fast enough in the past.

jackb4040 1 hour ago | parent

Lisp Machines. And if you're a real freak, Forth Machines

gulugawa 1 hour ago | parent

Coding without LLM AI.

thakoppno 1 hour ago | parent

tech debt

iamdamian 1 hour ago | parent

Plan 9 was cool.

krapp 1 hour ago | parent

The plan involving the raising of the dead?

mannyv 1 hour ago | parent

Analog computing

nwhnwh 51 minutes ago | parent

Love

FDEUp 39 minutes ago | parent

Computer Lib / Dream Machines

Xanadu

soon_to_be_sb 35 minutes ago | parent

How about giving a shit about efficiency?

vrighter 33 minutes ago | parent

what fast and performant really means.

rramadass 12 minutes ago | parent

All types of unconventional/exotic computing. I think this has been criminally neglected ever since the ascendancy of the von neumann architecture digital computer.

1) The Zen of Exotic Computing by Peter Kogge - https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1.9781611977295

2) Handbook Of Unconventional Computing in 2-vols (Vol1-Theory, Vol2- Implementations) by Andrew Adamatzky et al. - https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12232#...