@bbatsov enjoyed this! After doing some editor hopping from vi, to emacs , to textmate, back to vim, and having recently upgraded to neovim in the last month, I think your observation that AI can make these esoteric internal languages more accessible is spot on.

On top of that, lately I’ve been prompting so well with Claude code that I’ve just not needed vim to put in code. I use vim to edit prompts and configuration files, but I’ve lately taken back to using raw EX editor instead. It’s shockingly good.

Frankly, all of the noise that VS code shoves in my face between terminal, prompt, and code is overwhelming.

Ex at the top seems to be enough. More experimentation is warranted though.

And finally, I completely and with you that it seems baffling that so many techies maintain that AI can’t do anything. I have tons of things that has helped me do, how is that a dependable position? I don’t get it.

I was roundly mocked for suggestion FreeBSD ought try to get Claude support. Baffling