Claude repairs a PhD defense deck built with a broken random JS framework
patrickmineault · x · 2026-09-29
patrickmineault built his PhD defense slides in HTML with a random JS framework, whose dependencies broke years later. He asked Claude to fix it — and it just worked. He jokes the pattern dates back to "Lucas et al., 1977."
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