Using librairies, building TUI was easy before AI too.

Ben, that was one of my favorite "internet" stories... What a beautiful generational link!

Total resonance with this part :

"They’re writing TypeScript that compiles to JavaScript that runs in a V8 engine written in C++ that’s making system calls to an OS kernel that’s scheduling threads across cores they’ve never thought about, hitting RAM through a memory controller with caching layers they couldn’t diagram, all while npm pulls in 400 packages they’ve never read a line of."

Why not if you are free to fork it and do whatever you want with it ?

Maybe they can use an LLM to help them implement this feature ? Oh wait a second...

Fork the project.

What about "just" having an history table aside ? Or perhaps a better name would be a mouvement table ?

Write a commit message for your future self

Future self won't understand the code and the message. ;)

... Or your future AI agent

My first programming book was The ZX81 Basic. The best I ever read.

The main point isn't about dependencies but loosing the mindset to learn from small domain problem