How employment is changing at Anthropic

Re:How employment is changing at Anthropic by zahlman on Sunday October 18, 2026 @08:25AM (#50140474)

Valid overall, but text editors like vi (or emacs or whatever else you prefer in the category) really do have major benefits and are definitely not being chosen to be "flashy". Skilled users choose one that resonates with them, and practice using it specifically. Traditional mouse-oriented editors just don't deliver that UX. It's not at all like choosing a bloated or over-engineered project architecture.

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Re:How employment is changing at Anthropic by oblio on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:00AM (#50141676)

Pre-AI:

I've used vi and emacs and the number of their users that really 10x everyone else is vanishingly small. A large percentage of their userbases are people who wished they were the 10x but were much slower (or at best equal to) than the average Jetbrains tool users.

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Re:How employment is changing at Anthropic by mrheosuper on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:47AM (#50150365)

>are definitely not being chosen to be "flashy"

I have seen multiple cases that proves otherwise, some new programmers try to learn Vi because "All the cool haxxer on youtube use it"

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