Before LLMs, live coding on Twitch meant drunkenly scrolling Stack Overflow for an hour
chrisalbon · x · 2026-09-26
Chris Albon recalls live coding on Twitch before LLMs existed — which amounted to drunkenly scrolling through Stack Overflow for about an hour, a self-deprecating look at programming in the pre-AI era.
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