Claude rescues years-old PhD defense slides after JS dependencies broke
Ben_Reinhardt · x · 2026-09-29
Ben Reinhardt shared a fun AI use case: his PhD defense presentation, built years ago in HTML with a random JS framework, had broken dependencies. He asked Claude to fix it — and it just worked, bringing the full deck (on contactless on-orbit actuation via induction couplers) back to life. A neat example of LLMs reviving abandoned legacy code.
Related event: Claude Revives Broken PhD Defense Slides After Years of Rot(4 posts)→
More from coding & agent
- Four one-time Claude Skills (about-me, anti-ai-writing, skill-creator) automate your whole workflow — alex_verem · 2026-09-29
- Dev builds no-login pickleball court aggregator with agents, 500 visitors in 24 hours — AJChadha · 2026-09-29
- TypeScript C++ rewrite on track to be ~10x faster than Go version — inductionheads · 2026-09-29
- Grok launches Team Bots: shared AI teammates that learn as your team works — billyuchenlin · 2026-09-29
- LinkedIn Ads MCP Pack lets agents manage ad campaigns directly — modelcontextprotocol · 2026-09-29
- MCP REST Server gives agents Swagger-driven access to any REST API — modelcontextprotocol · 2026-09-29