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I have officially retired from Emacs

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Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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Post by viksit »

squigz wrote: post #21
farfatched wrote: post #4

A big loss for the Emacs community! emacs-aio is great! I see the author is spring cleaning: > I've turned over a new leaf (no more Openbox, Tridactyl, Xorg, xterm), and so some of these things I no longer use. On Linux I now use KDE on Wayland with a minimally-configured browser. I miss the power user features, but I do not miss the friction and constant maintenance. https://github.com/skeeto/dotfiles/commit/df27500…

Does anyone else not understand what people mean when they refer to the "friction" supposedly inherent to these power user tools? Almost none of the configs/scripts/etc I use for my heavily-customized and terminal-heavy setup get changed for years at a time.

> heavily-customized and terminal-heavy setup

this exactly. most people can’t set it up that well.

Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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Post by john_strinlai »

SuperNinKenDo wrote: post #13
farfatched wrote: post #4

A big loss for the Emacs community! emacs-aio is great! I see the author is spring cleaning: > I've turned over a new leaf (no more Openbox, Tridactyl, Xorg, xterm), and so some of these things I no longer use. On Linux I now use KDE on Wayland with a minimally-configured browser. I miss the power user features, but I do not miss the friction and constant maintenance. https://github.com/skeeto/dotfiles/commit/df27500…

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"more flexible with adopting new tech" and "freeing myself of previous choices" are completely unrelated to what you just wrote.

Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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Post by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs »

mattdeboard wrote: post #14

I've been retired from emacs for several years now but I'm still looking for a magit replacement that is independent of my editor. Vscode's magit extension is really good but i split my time between IntelliJ and vscode. Anyone know of something like this?

>i split my time between IntelliJ and vscode

The IntelliJ git client is my favorite by far, I am curious what do you not like about it?

Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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lowsong wrote: post #5

> With my newly-acquired superpowers I could knock out the last two pieces in a few days’ work From the linked post:[0] > I left an employer that is years behind adopting AI to one actively supporting and encouraging it. As of March, in my professional capacity I no longer write code myself. My current situation was unimaginable to me only a year ago. Like it or not, this is the future of software engineering. Turns…

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Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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Post by jesse_dot_id »

lowsong wrote: post #5

> With my newly-acquired superpowers I could knock out the last two pieces in a few days’ work From the linked post:[0] > I left an employer that is years behind adopting AI to one actively supporting and encouraging it. As of March, in my professional capacity I no longer write code myself. My current situation was unimaginable to me only a year ago. Like it or not, this is the future of software engineering. Turns…

AI psychosis is to have a toxic relationship with a chatbot as if though it was a real person. It has nothing to do with engineering. You're muddying your own point by conflating all LLM use with some kind of delusion. There is a lot of nuance in this space and you're not doing yourself any favors by ignoring it if you're an engineer. There is no bubble pop, other than a straight up apocalypse, that is going to put this genie back in the bottle. Models are trained. Tools are built. There isn't a single industry that cares about artistry more than efficiency. It's here to stay, it's getting better, and if you don't know how to use it, you're going to have trouble finding work.

Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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Post by mark_l_watson »

iLemming wrote: post #7
farfatched wrote: post #4

A big loss for the Emacs community! emacs-aio is great! I see the author is spring cleaning: > I've turned over a new leaf (no more Openbox, Tridactyl, Xorg, xterm), and so some of these things I no longer use. On Linux I now use KDE on Wayland with a minimally-configured browser. I miss the power user features, but I do not miss the friction and constant maintenance. https://github.com/skeeto/dotfiles/commit/df27500…

> LLMs have inspired a similar change in me FWIW, the age of LLMs made me build a deeper, more intimate relationship with Emacs, because it's a Lisp REPL loop with a built-in editor, not the other way around. When you give an LLM a closed loop system where it can evaluate code in a live REPL and observe the results, it stops guessing and starts reasoning empirically. LLM that I run inside Emacs can fully control the…

Same for me!

My .emacs config has improved and I wrote my own Emacs based coding agent https://github.com/mark-watson/coding-agent

Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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Post by anthk »

bitwize wrote: post #17
SuperNinKenDo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Our lives are much more than our computing environments. By surrendering a bit of control of our computing environments we free up our brains to devote to other things in life: loved ones, pets, gardening, home maintenance, other hobbies and sports... Millions of happy Apple users can't be wrong on this.

Millions of Apple users can't even have grabable corners. Enjoy.

Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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Post by anthk »

compiler-devel wrote: post #43
shaky-carrousel wrote: post #39

> Like it or not, this is the future of software engineering. For you, perhaps.

What is the future of software engineering in the age of LLMs?

To toss them because the level of damage they have done it's astounding. Tons of companies are still fixing the losses from vibe coding.

What we need it's better code analizers, lexers and the like. And LLM's are practically the opposite because they can't never, ever give a concise answer by design. Worse, they rot over time.

https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-...

Re: I have officially retired from Emacs

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Post by anthk »

lowsong wrote: post #5

> With my newly-acquired superpowers I could knock out the last two pieces in a few days’ work From the linked post:[0] > I left an employer that is years behind adopting AI to one actively supporting and encouraging it. As of March, in my professional capacity I no longer write code myself. My current situation was unimaginable to me only a year ago. Like it or not, this is the future of software engineering. Turns…

A line? Enjoy the papers telling you otherwise. Not just the cognition it's down, LLM's degrade themselves on every iteration.
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