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According to a post on X by @SciFi, researchers Jeff Shrager, Kent Pitman and Mia Golec rebuilt two early programs that modeled programming itself so that they run again. The programs are the 1961 Heuristic Compiler and 1984's KBEmacs. The post describes the work as "executable archaeology," a look at early AI research on programs that reason about programming. A related arXiv paper is linked in the post.
According to a post on X by @SciFi, researchers Jeff Shrager, Kent Pitman and Mia Golec rebuilt two early programs that modeled programming itself so that they run again. The programs are the 1961 Heuristic Compiler and 1984's KBEmacs. The post describes the work as "executable archaeology," a look at early AI research on programs that reason about programming. A related arXiv paper is linked in the post.
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Jeff Shrager, Kent Pitman and Mia Golec rebuilt two early programs that modeled programming itself so they run again, an "executable archaeology" look at early AI work on programs that reason about programming. Also: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36341 Original post on X Section: Or...
For researchers and developers interested in AI history, the revived programs offer a hands-on way to examine early approaches to reasoning about code. Readers who want to judge what the systems actually do should check the linked arXiv paper, since the post excerpt gives no details on their capabilities or results.
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