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This Old Repo: LLMs and the Restoration of BattleTris
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- Oxide and Friends
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- Jun 9, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 4707
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Summary
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 and Adam Leventhal . Previously on Oxide and Friends OxF s03e24 - Fork in the road for Terraform? OxF s06e02 - Engineering Rigor in the LLM Age OxF s06e01 - Predictions 2026!! Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them: BattleTris on github Surge 2011 ~ Closing Plenary ~ Theo Schlossnagle From the Governor of Delaware If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar . We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!