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I love this take. I think what you're describing is very much happened with the Industrial Revolution. It was just a bunch of powerful, dangerous machines at first, doing small job…

Yes, that's exactly why I chose it. It starts with an 'e' and it's not a super common spelling, so it wasn't taken.

I'm sorry it's not working. I've used emacs for almost 40 years and I'm definitely contributing to it being worse, by uploading efrit in its current state. But people were asking m…

Congrats on getting it running! This thing is a huge POC (and arguably a POS) so be careful with it. It's terrible at multi-step tasks right now. I'm evolving it to work more like …

Yeah it really kind of sucks right now, it's more of a proof of concept. I'm working on evolving it into something that's not so transactional -- it will work more like claude code…

Couldn't have put it better myself. It's great for the problems nobody has ever had time to solve. It's the problems that fall just below the ROI threshold, that tend to pile up un…

Gene and I would like to invite you to review our book, if you're up for it. It should be ready for early review in about 7-10 days. It seems like you would be the perfect audience…

I love this!

I guess I've been summoned. We're primarily focusing on VSCode, IntelliJ and Neovim for Cody. Of course I'll be working on an Emacs version, but that's kinda best-effort for now. A…

Kythe was slightly after my time on Grok. It was a side-effort by the Grok team, and it's frankly a miracle they got it out at all. Google only really supports a few big open-sourc…

Oh, I'm still writing it. The next installment is a novel. Thank you for your interest. :)

Howdy! Boy, HN is terrible at recovering old accounts, so I made this new one. I just posted an update to the predictions post, with my own scores. Take a look! As far as blogging …