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In the early 2000s I learned to code writing AIM "progs" in VB6: punters, clone loaders, bots. Archived the screenshots + source here: https://github.com/seven305/aim-progs-archive Anyone else learn by poking at AOL?

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Your Half-Typed Prompt Lives Inside the Agent, Not the Terminal. Injected Commands Hit It

Book: Prompt Engineering Pocket Guide The series: Pocket Guides for Developers — 8 short books on agents, RAG, prompts, observability, events, databases and system design — the whole series My…

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  • Agent processes input character-by-character, no line buffering
  • Injected commands like /help are handled by the agent

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