28
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2026
28 points (100.0% liked)
TechTakes
2467 readers
203 users here now
Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.
For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Good news, everyone’s favorite emacs is using AI now: https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php
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
somebody did show me neovim's AI-assisted PR tag. nice, I can get disappointed all in one go instead of once per day
disapointamaxxing
I poked around to see how far gone my main text editor is. They're not about to join the Butlerian Jihad, but I think I can live with it.
Contributor actually was bullied into closing his PR, but maintainers reopened and merged it, as the change was fine apparently. Lol
@antifuchs @techtakes Oh goodie they enshittified vim IS NOTHING SACRED?!? HAVE WE LIVED AND FOUGHT IN VAIN?!?!?
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
it has to be said, a runtime CVE in vim would be pretty embarrassing
@antifuchs s/is using AI/is being used for AI/g
There’s a big difference!
@antifuchs @BlueMonday1984 I didn't read it that way?
Only some guy demonstrated the ease of use of some vim script constructs using LLM? The rest seems just algorithms and pattern matching to me.
Yeah I'm your average emacs hater.
(Yeah there seem to be LLM plugins, some of them maybe can brew coffee?)