PhD defense slides with dead JS deps resurrected by Claude in one shot
Ben_Reinhardt · x · 2026-09-29
Investor Ben Reinhardt shares a fun anecdote: as a PhD student he built his defense slides in HTML using a random JS framework, whose dependencies broke over the years. He handed the mess to Claude, and it fixed the deck outright—a neat little case of AI-assisted legacy-code archaeology.
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