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Got this kind of crap from multiple tickets I filed with GitHub

"People say that you should not micro-optimize. But if what you love is micro-optimization... that's what you should do." -Linus

It's gotten ok now. Just spent a day with Claude for the first time in a while. Demanded strict TDD and implemented one test at a time. Might have been faster, hard to say for sure. Result was good.

This is exactly how I feel about engineers who dismiss Vim.

It's probably not unrealistic that a programmer who learns Vim well could be, say, 2x more productive in Vim than in, say, Nano.

Yet programmers who have used Nano were not (at least not significantly) scoffed at or ridiculed. It was their choice of tool, and they were getting work done.

It seems unclear how much more productive AI coding tools can make a programmer; some people claim 10x, some claim it actually makes you slower. But let us suppose it is on average the same 2x productivity increase as Vim.

Why then was using Vim not heralded from every rooftop the same as using AI?

Let’s see it then

go on reddit and you can see a million of these vibe coded codebases. is that not good enough?

You can really track the progression of Krazam's career based on what videos he puts out

It's funny, because this decision by Joel in 2006 prefigures TypeScript six years later. VBA was a terrible bet for a target language and Joel was crazy to think his little company could sustain a language ecosystem, but Microsoft had the same idea and nailed it.

Very cool. Let’s see it!

How do you know they’re not lying?