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An Altar for the Dead: The people who built your computer are disappearing from AI. I lit 85 candles.

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine In December 1983, a programmer named Mike Muuss wrote a small network tool called ping . You have probably used it. He died in 2000. Ask Gemma 3 1B who wrote it, and it answers with total confidence: Th…

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  1. 2026-10-31 13:24 · DEV Community — AI
    An Altar for the Dead: The people who built your computer are disappearing from AI. I lit 85 candles.

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