This post was translated from Italian with the help of Claude.

Once again this year I spent most of my time in the human skills track. It was a deliberate choice: to learn something, you have to get a little uncomfortable. If we always stay in our comfort zone we never find our limits, and nobody will push us past a limit we don’t know we have.

Paolo Caressa told the story of ELIZA, the first chatbot in history, and how he wrote a BASIC to JavaScript compiler to run the original code in a modern browser. Fascinating, instructive and absolutely mind blowing.