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I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI

The brief

A developer repurposed Unix talk, the 1983 terminal-to-terminal chat protocol, as the interface for a local AI assistant.

Key points

  1. The setup uses two terminal sessions where one side is the user and the other is the AI, passing messages via the original Unix talk protocol.
  2. The project is a retro-computing integration that makes the AI feel embedded in the Unix environment.
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