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Thirty-two years ago today—October 7, 1993—Future Crew released Second Reality at Assembly ’93 in Helsinki, Finland. It won first place in the PC demo competition and fundamentally changed what people thought was possible on IBM-compatible hardware. For a generation of developers, including myself, it was the moment that transformed computing from a tool into an art form. I still remember the anticipation. The modem’s carrier tone. The glacial progress bar a…

There’s something beautifully ironic happening on the web right now. Hundreds of websites have implemented a new standard called /llms.txt—a carefully crafted markdown file designed to help AI systems understand their content. Developers have built tools to generate these files. Community directories catalog implementations. SEO platforms flag sites that don’t have one. There’s just one problem: not a single major AI platform actually uses it. No, really. Not OpenAI. Not Google. Not Anthropic. Not Meta. The very systems that /llms.txt was designed to serve don’t even check i…