Abstract Heresies

This is an anecdote, not a data point, yet. I'm a firm believer in functional programming and I consider myself a `mostly functional...

I vibe coded my web site, not bothering to examine the code generated by the LLM, but giving it specifically directed prompts to generat...

I believe that vibe coding is the future. This is crazy because last year I was a skeptic. Last year LLMs couldn't write large Lisp ...

My coding agent interviewed me about `vibe coding': Victoria: Alright, the recorder is on. Let’s get into it. You’ve been dragging me...

I needed a function that could tell whether a string was a valid Common Lisp program. In theory, you could just call read on the string...

A year ago, you couldn't vibe code in Lisp. Even the SOTA models had trouble balancing parentheses, and they'd hallucinate package...

I wanted to run LLM models locally on my machine. I discovered that llama.cpp is how people run models locally, and that the popular LL...

Lately I've been playing with writing a chatbot library in Common Lisp. My previous gemini bindings were getting unweildy. I wanted ...

Last year I wrote some Lisp related AI apps. There was a syntax highlighter that used the LLM to determine how to colorize and highlight sy...

Metaobject Protocol (MOP) Implementation in CLRHack The Metaobject Protocol in CLRHack is a high-performance implementation of the Commo...

Implementation of SIGNAL and ERROR in CLRHack In CLRHack, the condition signaling system is implemented in the Lisp.HandlerControl clas...

In the CLRHack compiler, handler-bind is a primitive form used to register condition handlers in the dynamic environment. It operates by ...

In the CLRHack compiler, restart-bind is a primitive form that manages the dynamic lifecycle of Common Lisp restarts by manipulating a th...

Handling of unwind-protect The CLRHack compiler maps Lisp unwind-protect semantics directly onto the Structured Exception Handling (...

Multiple Return Value Implementation in CLRHack The CLRHack compiler implements Multiple Return Values (MRV) by extending the single-val...

Tail-Call Handling in CLRHack I decided to make proper tail recursion a fundamental requirement in CLRHack. This prevents stack overflow...

Lexical Closures in CLRHack CLRHack implements lexical closures by transforming dynamic Lisp environments into static CIL class structur...

Common Lisp Argument Passing in CLRHack The CLRHack engine translates the dynamic, flexible argument-passing semantics of Co...