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I started using Emacs 30 years ago. Used it as my main code editor for 15 years, and as my note-taking editor a little longer. I did write my share of elisp code, had a lot of fun with it, posted on gnu.emacs.sources back in the day, and shared a lot.

Emacs is still my main editor over ssh, so I happen to use it on a regular basis, and the commands are all imprinted on my fingers' muscle memory, so that's quite the comfort zone.

Happy Emacs anniversary to everyone!

My SO works in legal and regulatory compliance, she needed a small app (worflow with a form and a validation process), CTO said they could not do it, too complicated, would cost 15 days for a freelance and rejected it. She called it BS, and the next day she spent the morning with ChatGPT using their internal Microsoft-based tooling, and the app was done. She was hyped for the day, with a feeling of accomplishment and is already thinking of another project. And I'm hearing similar stories every week.

So yes, LLM have positive impacts in many business domains, but seeing people happy and enpowered with their home-made little apps, I think it's the best.

With a VPN for instance

If "70% of Canadian exports are to the US", that's probably why the US has so much leverage, and I can see why the Canadian government would like a change. Hence the need for a rebalancing of trade partnerships.

I mainly use them as macros. Not even an advanced and smart macro system, just plain basic macros to avoid copy-pasting recurrent prompts. Is there more to them?

I basically create a skill when I'm tired of always writing the same prompts, and then I adapt it over time.

I have like 3 skills, and so far so good, most of my recent changes have been asking Claude to please stop using metaphors and creative figures of speech that make the documents so much harder to read and understand (maybe it's only annoying to non-native speakers, I don't know)

«It uses an architecture where everything is a plugin» Ok, that's enough for me. I have developped over the year a plugin fatigue.

Every product relying on "community plugins" for their features implies it works fine the 6 first months, then it's a nightmare of incompatible, deprecated, incompatible plugins, with no consistency and no governance.

I understand how attractive it can be to companies to think, hey, let's make a very small product and rely on other people to make features, and I hope it works, but I'm personally staying away from that.

How can you come to that conclusion, given the specific examples I have given, which are tedious to write, but easy to proof-read and test?

For a lot of code, I switched to generating code rather than using 3rd party libraries. Things like PEG parsers, path finding algorithms, string sanitizers, data type conversion, etc are very conveniently generated by LLMs. It's fast, reduces dependencies, and feels safer to me.

2:320/104 represent!

I understand it can be difficult to label, and there's an inconveniently large grey area here, but there is a difference between plain vibe-coded software and software built with AI under the control, direction and validation of a developer.

The distinction is probably not very important for small applications, as nobody cares if a minor script or a one-shot data processor has been vibe-coded, but for large applications it surely matters in the long term.

Just found about this skin market/casino thing, and also that my teenage son purchased a skin for 100€, but is still pretty excited and happy about it because «its real value is around 700€». I am still processing this information.

I wouldn't lie even to strangers, and my point was solely about people having little to no sense of security.

Most people have no sense of security. They say yes to strangers if asked to plug in a USB device on their laptop. When I said no in the train to someone asking to plug their device "for charging", I was definitely the bad guy.

Just find anything plausible, for backup storage, or say, to share family photos with grand parents but it does not work on my home wifi because my ISP is blocking ports, whatever.