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glimshetoday at 1:32 PM3 repliesview on HN

Prediction: Emacs will reach super intelligence before Claude.


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rgoultertoday at 4:07 PM

I do wish that Emacs was more popular with LLM technologies.

LLMs are powerful at dealing with text. And Emacs is highly extensible and typically text-oriented. Already I see people say that LLMs much Emacs much easier to use (since you can ask an LLM to come up with the elisp for you), but I reckon what Emacs provides ought to be useful the other way.

With Emacs, it's common to see people favour bringing various parts of the system all within Emacs. I'm reminded of that when I've seen how useful it can be to provide API access to logging/code/documentation when asking an LLM to troubleshoot.

With LLMs, there are several uses cases I see which are a natural fit for org-mode, and just imitated in markdown. -- e.g. org mode have TODO items, checklists, tables (including spreadsheet functionality), code blocks, tagging/properties.

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willXaretoday at 2:15 PM

Emacs won’t reach superintelligence. It will just add it as a minor mode.

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gpderettatoday at 2:03 PM

No, I think that ̶w̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶m̶u̶t̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶m̶e̶r̶g̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶n̶e̶u̶r̶o̶m̶a̶n̶c̶e̶r̶ emacs will merge with claude instead.

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