The way code actually becomes clay, without needing a clay-wielding robot to do ...

lioeters · 2026-10-22T04:30:43 1792643443

There's even an editor (?) for Lisp called Clay.

https://scicloj.github.io/clay/

> Clay is a data visualization and literate programming tool that creates documents (HTML pages, PDFs, books, blog posts, reports, slideshows) from Clojure source code and comments.

I guess it's more of a computational notebook or interactive environment.

So not only the code but the running program and the editing environment itself is clay.

so-cal-schemer · 2026-10-22T19:01:24 1792695684

Thanks for that last link, Kaz. I hadn't seen it before.

It's a wonderful "Gonzo" style report by Steven K Roberts (SKR!), with photos, of a groundbreaking AI conference and soon after, the first Lisp conference (20+ years after it's creation) -- both at Stanford.

I remember Hofstadter referencing this conference at the AI symposium he hosted and I attended at Stanford in 2000 (another 20 years later). Nice to see this.

  Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50039614

I just have to say, BYTE Magazine was the best. A shame they didn't publish this story.

lol - “DWIM, not DWTWHMY (Do What I Mean, not Do What This Would Have Meant Yesterday).”