I mean, given that I’m typing this from an X window managed by emacs emulating vim…

both vim and emacs are really good editors with an ecosystem of modern features (and a bunch of stuff that goes beyond what IDEs usually provide too). unlike an LLM, an editor is a tool that rewards learning. the problem is, guys like Torvalds are so unwilling to learn a new way of working that they turned the horrible way of working they started with into a fetish, and they made that fetish everyone else’s problem. there’s a lot of horrible development practices in the kernel that stem from conservatism and an unwillingness to learn.

and as it turns out, LLMs are perfect in so many ways if you’re an overwhelmed conservative trying to hold onto power without ever having to learn a damn thing again.