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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by coldtea on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @05:36PM (#50459777)
>Of course it is. The AI coded apps only (debatably) work as end-user apps. They are thin little bumps on top of the software mountain. So much, including all the AI tools, depends on efficient, perfectly deterministic tooling.

Most of that is also written via AI these days... Even the Linux kernel got that bug.

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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by fock on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:21PM (#50461070)
and we'll see how that plays out. The way I loom at the chains of "AI" adds feature and feature needs 5 extra PRs over a year to fix it, I think this will be fun!
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