The old BitchX IRC client brought back to life
Claude worked through the build errors in decades-old BitchX source until it compiled and connected to IRC the same afternoon.
Credits
- Reddit poster MirrorizeAi Source ↗
Earliest dated source:
The full story
BitchX is an old IRC client whose source had sat untouched for decades, with ancient autoconf, K&R-era C and headers that no longer exist on modern systems. The poster had tried to build it before and given up.
This time they handed the repo to Claude and worked through the errors together. It compiled and connected the same afternoon, ANSI logo included. The poster says Claude seemed to understand why the old code was written that way and kept the original behaviour rather than modernising it.
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Sources
From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I had Claude resurrect BitchX, the old IRC client, and it was running the same afternoonReddit poster: MirrorizeAiPosted
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
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