I jotted down some thoughts on the future of editors like #Emacs and #Vim in the age of AI https://batsov.com/articles/2026/03/09/emacs-and-vim-in-the-age-of-ai/

I'd be very curious to hear your thoughts on the subject as well.

Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. – Yogi Berra

(think)

@bbatsov Emacs as the text-buffer-based abstraction for personal computing is *amazing* today.

I wrote an MTP TRAMP extension to copy files via dired onto Android devices.

I now have a mise-en-place manager to interactively remove, install, upgrade, ... CLI tools per project and globally.

A PARA filing scheme helper, too, with org agenda integration.

The integrations you listed makes _acting_ on Emacs buffer contents as input from the 'IDE' trivial.

Without it, we'd only have .md files!