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Re: The Emacsification of Software

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It is certainly unsurprising that one who presumes to know all about others would take a small data point and use it to confirm the correctness of their presumptions, rather than to consider any sort of introspection. You do you.

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Still no introspection; that sentiment is obviously directed outward.

Re: The Emacsification of Software

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It has been 3 hours already since your comment and I have just installed a WhatsApp update and it took around 10 seconds. We're still waiting for tptacek's DIY WhatsApp alternative since he believes that it's "easier to build your own solution than to install an existing one" . That must be one of the most silliest comments I have ever read, and the worst part is even the moderators agree with the statement. AI psych…

To be fair, I think it is true that AI will help nerds (like me) implement their own clients. Without AI, I will think that "I could make my own client", I will spend some evenings and weekends proving that I can solve the problem, and then I will never spend the time I would need to actually make it usable. And I would love it if more services had an Open API and allowed people to write their own clients. I like the…

> Without AI, I will think that "I could make my own client", I will spend some evenings and weekends proving that I can solve the problem, and then I will never spend the time I would need to actually make it usable.

I've ran into this problem many times. I'm quite pleased that the AI can complete the 'last mile' on many of my old projects. I'm finally publishing my packages! Time will tell if they're any good but at least they're buildable, testable, lint-free, documented and installable now.

Re: The Emacsification of Software

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i've made maybe 20 personal LLM tools this year. 3 survived past the first week. not because the rest weren't useful, just wasn't willing to debug them when something broke.

What were the three?

I built a vibe coding replay/inspection tool https://vibe-replay.com/ I built a co-work for cursor, I haven't publish that yet I also built something combined activity watch and screen pipe, that provide `what did I do` context to LLM, this one didn't end up very well, still an interesting exploration though

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The problem is the dependencies, getting hunspell installed and finding the dictionary files for example. I normally only get a new computer every few years and each time stuff like that is a new pain. And dont even start with treesitter, i cant compile anything on windows and always end up using prebuild dlls.

Are you using Cygwin? That's what I've used on Windows since it was available.

Nope, straight edge windows user.
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