Moved on to vis a few years ago and never looked back to vim/neovim. Granted, it doesn't have all the sparkles of the former, but it's way leaner and snappier - and you can tell there's no ai in it.
Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#62I use Emacs more in the era of AI than I did prior.
I'm writing less code, but I'm reviewing more code. And I use magit in Emacs for reviewing code.
And I run my agents inside my emacs. I use my emacs like most others use tmux -- my emacs session is persistent and I connect with emacsclient.
Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#63(Neo)vim is setup wonderfully for this era. Im with Justin on the take that neovim can replace tmux soon literally all that is left is being able to restart terminal sessions on restart (which is even set as a goal for summer of code). Neovim can already have all the agents running in different terminal buffers or there are plugins popping up every day to have deep integrations with your favorite or we even have some…
What you’re saying is super interesting, I’ve been using my setup for so long I might have missed some of the latest updates.
I spend most of my time on TMUX with Claude Code and vim side by side btw, but I’m using it just to search some specific code and making small changes.
I mostly review on GitHub PRs tbh
Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#64I’m not using any AI. A lot of us aren’t. Vim has done me well for 30 years so I’m not going to throw that away to sharecrop on someone else’s land.
"I'm not using any AI."
Nor am I
This seems to trigger argumentative replies on HN, including personal attacks
How do we explain this
Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#65I’m not using any AI. A lot of us aren’t. Vim has done me well for 30 years so I’m not going to throw that away to sharecrop on someone else’s land.
"I'm not using any AI." Nor am I This seems to trigger argumentative replies on HN, including personal attacks How do we explain this
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Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#66I've barely touched Intellij for the last half year or so. I rarely edit code manually at this point. I also did not renew my subscription and am back on the community edition. I've noticed that my preferences for tools and languages is shifting as well. I'm happy to work with stuff that I previously would have not touched now because it would take me too long to get up to speed with languages, frameworks, etc. That…
I’m still not exactly at the point where I don’t need the IDE. I still like Idea products for their indexing and navigation - I’m just used to them.
Codex doesn’t yet do a good job showing diffs nicely. Nor with navigation.
I agree I reach out to the IDE less and less now.
Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#67I see a lot of valid points, so let me specify better: now that the way we write code drastically changed, did you change anything in your vim setup? Like plugins, habits, anything?
Right now I'm using TMUX with Claude Code and Vim side-by-side, but I mostly use vim to look at the code and make small changes, while I review the code changes directly on GitHub PRs.
And yes, I admit I look at the code less than before. For as much as I'd like to say it's untrue, I'm increasingly spending time in crafting skills to make sure they don't break the code, trusting the Coding Agent more and more, and consequently looking less at the code itself (which it doesn't mean I don't know how it works, I am in a sort of "reviewer mode" as a coworker writes it, with additional care and attention ofc).
So yeah I was wondering how did it change for you and if you think it still makes sense (it's my understanding that the agreement is "yes" apparently, with which I tend to agree!)
Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#68I’m not using any AI. A lot of us aren’t. Vim has done me well for 30 years so I’m not going to throw that away to sharecrop on someone else’s land.
Does that answer the question? Or can you just not help mentioning that you don’t use AI? Because if so, congrats! I’m sure you’re very proud of yourself.
Rejecting the implied premise is a legitimate answer
Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd even go so far at to say that if you're not writing the code yourself, you probably need to look at it even more than previously. Even before AI most of us read way more code than we wrote, that should still hold true.
You're ignoring that AI coding attracts a whole new crop of people who would never have touched computers before. We live in interesting times.
That's fair, but I wouldn't think those users would be using vim either (probably vscode)
Re: Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
#70I’m not using any AI. A lot of us aren’t. Vim has done me well for 30 years so I’m not going to throw that away to sharecrop on someone else’s land.
"I'm not using any AI." Nor am I This seems to trigger argumentative replies on HN, including personal attacks How do we explain this
Cognitive dissonance from being confronted with evidence they're not actually speeding up, when us non-AI devs are only having issues with managers pushing it from above even though we're not actually falling behind?
I also use vim and don't use AI.