The Emacsification of Software

kept by eddie may 13

AI-assisted coding makes software so easy to produce that individuals now build their own personal tools rather than install existing ones.

I have officially retired from Emacs
Chris Wellons retired from Emacs after 20 years, replacing its tools like Elfeed with native C++ GUI apps built using AI assistance.
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Developers are attached to tools because tools encode trust - Stack Overflow
Developers trust tools they master through muscle memory, but AI coding agents erode that trust with unpredictable outputs, shifting bottlenecks to review and demanding new processes and cultural alignment.
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How I Rebuilt My Development Workstation for Agentic Work
The author rebuilt their development workstation around terminal-native tools like WezTerm, tmux, and Neovim to support agentic workflows with parallel human-agent collaboration across Git worktrees.
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crawshaw - 2026-02-08
AI coding agents have improved dramatically in the past year, now writing 90% of code, causing IDEs to wane as he returns to Vi.
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matduggan.com
Markdown replaced complex .doc and .docx formats because its plain-text simplicity eliminates corruption and works universally across modern tools.
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