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The Postcard That Ate Six Grammars: 1980 Smalltalk-80, 1976 Make, TDD, and the Four Attractors of Agentic Coding

Why did six modern AI prompt grammars—Graphviz digraphs, SysV /etc/init.d cards, Gherkin scenarios, EBNF speech-act rules, Belnap epistemic tables, and rewind checklists—all collapse into a single 1980 Smalltalk-80 keyword message cascade? Because Alan Kay and Dan Ingalls solved the static serializ…

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  1. 2026-11-03 02:41 · DEV Community — AI
    The Postcard That Ate Six Grammars: 1980 Smalltalk-80, 1976 Make, TDD, and the Four Attractors of Agentic Coding

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