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[–] antifuchs@awful.systems 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Good news, everyone’s favorite emacs is using AI now: https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

can somebody tell me whether neovim is selling out to LLMs or led by transphobes or getting money from Anduril or something, so I decide whether to switch before getting disappointed again

[–] mirrorwitch@awful.systems 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

somebody did show me neovim's AI-assisted PR tag. nice, I can get disappointed all in one go instead of once per day

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

disapointamaxxing

[–] cstross@wandering.shop 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

@antifuchs @techtakes Oh goodie they enshittified vim IS NOTHING SACRED?!? HAVE WE LIVED AND FOUGHT IN VAIN?!?!?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It looks more like they used an LLM (Copilot) to construct programs using the new features in the language.

So more "hop on the bandwagon using LLMs to advertise" rather than "we used LLMs to develop"

OTOH "these new features are so advanced you need AI to use them" is a bit of a weird sell

[–] istewart@awful.systems 2 points 4 hours ago

it has to be said, a runtime CVE in vim would be pretty embarrassing