Claude Revives Decade-Old PhD Defense Slides After Dependencies Broke

A researcher's PhD defense slides, built with HTML and a random JS framework, broke after years of dependency rot, but Claude successfully repaired them. The story went viral, complete with a joke citation of "Lucas et al., 1977."

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