Watching AI agents run "sed" gives veteran Unix users Jurassic Park nostalgia
burhop · x · 2026-10-28
A veteran developer shares that every time an AI coding agent uses "sed", he gets nostalgic about learning it on his first Unix machine — illustrated with the classic Jurassic Park meme "It's a Unix system, I know this". A charming collision of modern coding agents and old-school engineering memories.
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