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When people talk about IDEs, there’s almost always an hidden assumption that they are referring to something like Visual Studio or IDEA (VS Code is a lesser version of these). But no comparison has ever been made to Smalltalk, or REPL development like Slime. There’s not even a mention of programmable editors like VIM and Emacs which can leverage the Unix OS environment.
I used emacs (and dired) for years. Do you think these could be leveraged for AI development. Many have moved away from terminals over the years, but Claude Code sure has brought them back into the limelight!
I'm currently (mostly) living in Emacs with a few shell buffers and using gptel to interact with Anthropic, Google, and Open Ai LLMs, as well as running smaller LLMs locally. This is after decades of vi, then vim, then Emacs. Still a neophyte though given the enormity of the Emacs "ecosystem". One critical thing about Emacs: Running an Emacs daemon (for days or weeks between restarts) takes things to an entirely different level. It becomes a useful operating system. The key for me was moving from mutt to mu4e for email. Once I moved my email management into Emacs things improved dramatically, productivity-wise. Oh, and what made me switch to Emacs from Vim in the first place was org-mode.