AI Coding
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A new Frontier: An Inscrutable Tangle of State Management
Previously: Frontier in the Terminal With a REPL By this point, the easy parts were mostly already over. Frontier was no longer a pile of old source to coax into compiling. It was running headless. It could load old databases. It had a new REPL so I could do basic command-line interactions, and more and more… Continue reading
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The Real AI Moat
In the AI online space lots of folks are arguing about models. Which one codes better. Which one has the bigger context window. Which one wins the benchmark this week. Which one halucinates less. Is Claude Code or Codex or Gemini CLI better, or should I use an open source harness like Pi. The model and… Continue reading
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A new Frontier: Frontier in the Terminal With a REPL
Previously: Old databases are new again Why implement a REPL? And what the heck is a REPL anyway? Why should I care? As some remember, classic Frontier had the QuickScript Window: Type some UserTalk, click Run, get the result in a little output area. It was useful, and we used it. A lot! While working… Continue reading