A long time ago, in a classroom far, far away, I spent class time that would had otherwise be used for listening to teachers drone on about things of little importance, writing a bot for IRC in mIRC. It didn’t do much, but it responded to some words, executed some commands, and pestered some people who didn’t like automation in their lives. Although those days are long past, thanks to the adoption of HipChat at work, and an internal IRC testing environment successfully built, I am revisiting the idea of a chat bot once more. This time, it’s super serial.