Vibe Archeologist: From Z80 Assembly to an 1859 Mudbrick House and Beyond

Born a month before the Moon landing, I’ve spent 56 years watching the world shift from vacuum tubes to LLMs. While others are chasing the latest JS framework, I’m busy rebuilding an 1859 mudbrick house in Blender and writing a WASM compiler that feels like Z80 assembly. This is not just a memoir of a GitHub Copilot Challenge winner; it’s a manifesto for the "Vibe Archeologist" —the bridge between the raw silicon of the past and the fluid AI of the future. https://dev.to/devteam/congrats-to-the-github-copilot-cli-challenge-winners-2240 1969 It is high time I started writing my memoirs. I don’t know if winning this challenge means I’ve dug my own grave or found the key to a brighter future, but understandably, I choose to remain optimistic. To put it bluntly: I was born exactly one month before humanity landed on the moon (1969). I don’t feel old, but saying "56 years" out loud... well, it’s quite a lot. The story is fascinating in hindsight because it began in those heroic days before