Seems like with all AI-enabling and just works out of the box experiences with VSCode and alike, makes GNU Emacs absolete. I’m aware of AI packages for GNU Emacs, but don’t think is worth the investiement so much; I would mostly save it for org mode, TUI, and some other few packages. But for programming, it doesn’t seem lile worth the investment, and use VSCode instead.
Certainly knowing things will always be valuable - but the effect of assistants and LLMs may be to change what it is valuable to know by devaluing a great heap of current generation’s programmers’s stock and trade.
As an addenda: by value in the above I mean “instrumental value” or more specifically, valuable to the rich who want to exploit the skills of others to become yet richer. There is always intrinsic value to knowing for the people who love to know.
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I use Emacs for two reasons. Sunk cost, of course, but also the text input-methods for other natural languages. That’s like the main killer feature why I don’t even look at other editors. Anytime I try to type some dïäcrïtïcs into acme or whatever it’s a nightmare of compose sequences or deadkeys.
Also paredit is pretty sick.
@nyl @emacs