I turned Unix talk from 1983 into the interface for my AI
Andros Fenollus built a bridge between the 1983 Unix `talk` command and an AI, so that running `talk ai@host` over a VPN connects you to a language model that replies character by character. The server runs `talk` in a PTY, uses `pyte` to emulate the terminal, and streams the AI's response as if it were a human typing. A nostalgic, poetic experiment that revives old tech for a new era.
It is candy for any programmer.
- fouc
Great idea! After all why reinvent the wheel with TUI libraries built in a popular browser-based front-end javascript framework?
- JoshTriplett
I remember using talk back when first learning Linux in college. I enjoyed the character-by-character aspect of it.
- nenadg
I used talk back in 90ties and loved it and still missing it. Interfacing this with LLM is a nice touch.