Man, what happened to Frinkiac?

I was scrolling through Bluesky one day when I saw a post about Frinkiac “modernising with AI”. Here’s the official part that was screenshotted: Ten Years of Frinkiac: A Few Months of Modernization with AI It’s been just over ten years (February 2, 2016) since we launched Frinkiac to the public. In those first few months after release we added GIF support, some new sites (hello Morbotron), and then we mostly stopped working on it. Everything worked well enough for us and the code sat unchanged on the same architecture we’d built in 2015. In February 2026 it occurred to us that maybe we should point those AI coding tools we’ve been using at the Frinkiac codebase. The result of that work is live now and you can go see it on both Frinkiac and Morbotron, but we’ve also documented a subset of the experience in this post. Now it looks noisier. I get that change is inevitable but also that’s the most banal and contextless phrase—now more than ever. This kind of change is very much evitable.…