"because that's the only way to use it without being harassed online"

I disagree with his reasons for removing it, but they are pretty clear.

Yeah, I don't doubt the image is about the US. That's why I said "US specifically". My comment wasn't saying "don't talk about the US, this is not about the US". My comment was saying "That makes sense for the US, but we can also discuss it in a wider context, not just regarding the US specifically".

I see the confusion. In this article we have a situation where the audience wanted a worse idea. In the Matrix example, the audience came up with a better idea (computer power makes more sense than batteries). So it's the reverse scenario.

But from your "Apparently", I'm guessing you are not aware that's it's a long debunked urban legend. It was always supposed to be batteries. It just makes so much sense for it to be computing power, that the urban legend was really captivating.

What about them? I don't see the analogue

See my other comment

Sure, here is the official guidance: https://kernel.org/doc/html//next/process/coding-assistants.html

And here is a search that finds some of the AI commits: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Atorvalds%2Flinux+%22Assisted-by%22&type=commits

And here is an interview with Linus Torvalds, where he says he's a huge believer in AI and explains how it makes work on the kernel easier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_8YliVS4E

There are over 50 countries/currencies that use the "$" symbol. I'm counting only the ones that actually use "$" specifically, not the many more who use "$" with an additional symbol/name.

Nobody is talking about the US specifically though

There is AI code in the Linux kernel now, I don't think it's realistic to go full vegan on AI.

I didn't try it but this claims to have done it: https://www.beeper.com/

Of course they can, and I underline that in my comment several times, that this person is free to do it, good for them. I don't disagree with that at all. I'm sure they will learn a lot and that's great.

And everyone else is free to evaluate the prospects and realities of that fork.

Why do you say it's an amazing project? Looks to me like someone copied vim, and according to the commits did nothing useful other than changing some text in a few files. The author's comments are all about coming up with a cool name for it, and what "cool" new features to add. I don't see any plan on actually making this a viable competing project. I don't see the author having much credentials in leading a project of this caliber either.

Before anyone misunderstands my comment, yes anyone not liking AI should stop using vim, I very much agree. And there are two viable ways forward:

• Switch to a different editor
• Talk to the maintainers of vim to remove AI

This project is not one of them.

Where is the author's plan to tackle the 1600 issues that vim has open? How do they address the fact that vim has hundreds of commits each month, and literally had 68 contributors in just the last month? In the past month they closed 66 issues with vim. Half of vim's codebase is written in vimscript, and the other half in C. The new lead maintainer, I quote: "thankfully i know some C, but not vimscript". They know some C and no vimscript? So how do they plan to develop this project?!

Another quote: "removing old targets, stripping away graphical stuff (who uses this in graphical mode anyways? everyone uses it in the CLI...", and they already plan to drop Windows support. Already ignoring user's needs and removing functionality. Now, they are perfectly entitled to do whatever in their fork. But how is it a viable competitor to vim in any way?

Even assuming the worst case scenario on what damage AI can do to the progress of vim's development, who can seriously suggest that 1 person who doesn't even know the relevant programming langagues can make a better project than hundreds of experienced contributors that are doing it for years, AI or not?

And again, all the power to them, they can have some fun with their fork. But it's ridicoulus to suggest it as an alternative. Two years from now, vim will have fixed ~1500 issues at the current rate. And will have a bunch of new ones due to AI. Meanwhile this project will be dead, and the latest version will have 1500 unfixed issues that are all fixed in vim.

Taking a stance again AI in vim? Do it, campaign for it, talk to the maintainers, effect change, review PRs and comment about the AI mistakes you see, submit bug reports for bugs caused by AI and make a case for forbidding it's use. You have my full support. This fork? It's obviously going nowhere, it's a waste of effort that could be used to actually stop AI.