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You could argue that a Claude code session also works like a lisp/smalltalk image.

I fail to see it. But that could really be me. Could you explain how?

The loop and LLM is the runtime, the code on disk/in git is the external state - and the session (dumped and loaded as json) is the image.

The LLM terminal/chat is the repl, and the shell language is natural text input.

Something like that?