Reading up on Vim

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.

The author learned that programming productivity stems from problem focus and intuition, not from elaborate editor setups, after observing a prolific engineer using minimal tools.

Chris Wellons retired from Emacs after 20 years, replacing its tools like Elfeed with native C++ GUI apps built using AI assistance.

Vim 9.2 adds Wayland support, XDG compliance, fuzzy completion, diff improvements, and Vim9 script enhancements like enums and generics.

In an Ask HN post, commenters list open source projects they are grateful for, such as Linux, Git, Vim, and Python.