The Second Coming of the Command Line

In The Beginning Every time your right pinky slams that ENTER key, you are making another try. In some cases the [coding agent] does nothing. In other cases it wipes out all of your files. In most cases it just gives you an error message. In other words, you get many duds. But sometimes, if you have it all just right, the computer grinds away for a while and then produces something like emacs. —…