Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)

I spent the last few weeks making a coding agent for the terminal. This strikes me as anachronistic: the terminal is technology from before my lifetime, and I’m using it as the interface to exhilarating, terrifying, cutting-edge, trillion dollar modern day research. I find the juxtaposition nice. It’s a reminder that I build on what came before me, and others will build on what I leave behind. All modern terminals are (roughly) emulations of a single terminal released in 1978: the Digital...