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Simplifying terminology is not a problem. The providers intentionally choosing terminology to make people think it's something it's not is a problem. I hate the term agent. Calling them companions as some do is just gross.
Re:EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @10:17AM (#47323616)
I have been writing a vim coding assistant harness in vimscript. I'm now writing it with itself. It's a weird language, and not terribly well represented in training sets compared to other languages. But it's fun - you can do things like divide by zero. On purpose.
Time for kids to learn vim.
Re:The Linux Foundation Launches the Agentic AI Foundation on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @03:53PM (#46210512)
I had the same question. Also, how exactly does this connect to the Linux Foundation? If these are really like the other foundational projects LF supports, why aren't they just included under the same umbrella. Additionally, who is leading this? All I see here is the vague announcement, several listed projects, and pricing to join this new foundation. Perhaps I don't understand how these things start (I wasn't there for the beginning of LF), but this looks to my eyes more like corporate divestment than sustainable shared collaboration.

Show HN: LLviM – A conversational coding plugin for Vim and Local LLMs

https://github.com/gkchestertron/LLviM

I like VIM. I like LLMs. I like to work offline. I don't like to pay LLM providers for every line of code I write, and I like to have total control of the context. So, I wrote a plugin for vim that lets me use local LLMs (quantized deepseek coder is surprisingly useful and fast), have total control of the context, and integrate with my normal vimming flow. This one doesn't do tab completion or...

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Re:TikTok is finally on the decline on Sunday March 03, 2024 @11:06AM (#39581717)
Good riddance to the lowest form of entertainment.
Re:The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company on Monday February 12, 2024 @09:32AM (#39345171)
Thinking is the real work that engineers do.
Re:Antidepressants or Tolkien on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:52PM (#38186566)
This is beautiful.