AI Agents Revive 20‑Year‑Old Math Applets and Build Relativity Visualizer
Terry Tao shows how a modern LLM‑powered coding agent rewrote two dozen dead Java 1.0 applets into JavaScript in a few hours, fixing one bug and even spotting two hidden issues. The same agent then produced a new special‑relativity visualization tool—a concept Tao abandoned in 1999—demonstrating that AI can both resurrect legacy code and accelerate fresh prototyping.