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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by mickeyp on Thursday November 12, 2026 @01:47AM (#50463848)
That's obviously the best use of an AI's time.

Have you ever written parsers for complex languages? It is a cumbersome slog.

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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by hahn-kev on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:02AM (#50463965)
Yeah it's also super easy to automate testing.
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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by fock on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:07AM (#50468583)
that's why they then proceeded to stop accepting PRs because of AI-slop. Funny, when the current dev appeared on stage mid 2025...

It seems quite cumbersome that this is, how this is supposed to work now?

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