Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic
by krageon on Thursday November 12, 2026 @05:41PM
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It's just the low code craze all over again but with different seasoning. It can't work as hyped and it's going to produce a lot of tire fires.
I have trouble believing software engineers that have been in the space for more than five, maybe ten years are seriously convinced of your former point. The latter is of course just a fact (demonstrable and observable in practice), so discussing it also makes no sense.
What I wish would happen is that there was more discussion about things that are actually interesting: in what way is the underlying tech being advanced? Most of the news around this and most of the discussion is about the fiftieth slop software doing something tedious instead of actual novelty. I really enjoyed reading about the early tweaks that for example forced even very simple models to emit correct json based on a schema. It was creative and back then very hard. Why is all this breathless vapid hype so effective on most people?
I have trouble believing software engineers that have been in the space for more than five, maybe ten years are seriously convinced of your former point. The latter is of course just a fact (demonstrable and observable in practice), so discussing it also makes no sense.
What I wish would happen is that there was more discussion about things that are actually interesting: in what way is the underlying tech being advanced? Most of the news around this and most of the discussion is about the fiftieth slop software doing something tedious instead of actual novelty. I really enjoyed reading about the early tweaks that for example forced even very simple models to emit correct json based on a schema. It was creative and back then very hard. Why is all this breathless vapid hype so effective on most people?