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[–] YetiBeets@lemmy.world 103 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, a Spite Fork. Those are always well maintained, drama free and stable open souce communities

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 8 points 6 days ago

What infuriates me is that you've got this whole class of people who never contributed shit to the project, don't support it financially, probably don't even submit bug reports for it. But they'll spend some energy to spite-fork it. Energy they always refused to spend acutally helping, now they'll be happy to spend it to contribute negatively to the project.

I guess that's par for the course in this ultra-individualistic timeline but it makes me so fucking sad.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, what the fuck? vim has LLM shit in it now?!?

[–] tinwelint@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As far as I understand, they are allowing usage of LLM for developing on vim, aka adding features to the editor.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 week ago (3 children)

...motherfucker… -_- The only users I block are agentics.

Well, TIL. I’ll have to be more vigilant going forward. God, this era of tech fucking sucks.

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[–] x1gma@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (22 children)

Wait, so because vim is allowing code written with AI we are switching to a random fork? The mental gymnastics here are insane once again. Is someone assuming that the vim maintainers are gonna do agentic requests? How is this project gonna handle upstream changes into their own main? Cherry-picking only "confirmed human-only" commits? Decisions like that out of spite, with zero thoughts and just out of principle do not help against slop. You're just adding human slop to the AI slop.

[–] sucoiri@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I'm sad I hate to scroll this far to see a sane take. Bad code is bad, AI accelerating the destruction of the planet is bad, but experienced maintainers using the tools that exist is not bad, and trying to fork a project like Vim because of that is insane. Power to them if they actively maintain it, but I don't see that in the cards.

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 56 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

😭 -- damn, time to try emacs again...

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[–] billbasher@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Why can’t projects adding AI just fork a new project with AI?? Call it vimai or something and let people choose it if they want it. Stop ruining things

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bro how am I gonna have time to go party with babes if I’m stuck at home coding this non-ai version bro the future is now man bro dude whoa

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[–] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago

Absolutely against AI coded garbage but trusting this person to pick up something as important as vim is also crazy. I’ll swap to another editor that has been tested and is a proven solution. Focus your knee jerk reactions so you don’t end up in another problem.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

slop code in vim? really?? wtf

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait what? Vim has AI now? Jfc

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

I think they’re saying before developers started using AI to write the code, not that there are ai features in vim.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better make an AI free fork of linux too then.

Can't have all those fancy 7.0 changes in my kernel because some dev used AI to check his code formatting before submitting a PR. I'll stick with my outdated fork thank you very much. Upstream fix for blatant CVE but the fix includes an AI comment? Nooooo thank you.

I mean its not like there's a reject button for pull requests or anything. Anyone could just submit AI slop and we'd never know. Not even from the blatantly failing CI tests.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Didn't Torvald's already chew people out for committing vibe-coded crap? At least I can rest assured the Linux Kernel doesn't have dysfunctional generated code in it.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think actually on the programming side, we’re in a fairly good spot. I really think that AI will be a tool and it will make people more productive. I think that vibe coding is great for getting into programming. I think it’s gonna be a horrible thing to maintain. So I don’t think programmers go away. You still want to have the people who know how to maintain the end result. I’m a huge believer in AI. I’m not a huge believer in the things going on around AI. I find the marketing and the market to be sick and twisted, and there is going to be a crash, and it’s gonna be ugly.

Linus Torvalds

Source

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Vibe-coding =/= actual coding. He chewed out someone for committing code that was simply churned out by an AI without checking if it's actually functional code.

Lemme try find his email...

[–] RogueJello@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So.... typical Linus response to poor code. You'd don't really need a source, I've seen him go off on bad coders more than once, adding AI doesn't really change much.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

I mean... He did say something along the lines of being incompetent for using AI. Or that incompetence made them use AI.

I think Linus sees some benefit in an AI tool catching problems in code you've written, but not as a crutch to vibe-code with.

[–] moseschrute@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

100% agree, but does your average Lemmy user know the difference between vibe coding vs actual coding using some AI tool? Is vim being vibe coded or are the maintainers just using some AI tools?

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't believe ai slop is in vim of all things, also there aren't any ai slop code in nano btw

[–] chocrates@piefed.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Any idea if Neovim is slop coded too?

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's why I use vs code. Definitely no vibe code in there lol There is no escape from micro plastics or AI it seems

[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Lol, lmao even

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[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

IMPORTANT!!!

Your browser (Firefox and chrome) both have ai code in it! Even using librewolf there's still AI generated code!!!!

Your operating system KERNEL allows ai generated commits! Time to switch from Linux.

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 6 points 6 days ago

Mesa3D also has no strict rules against contributions of AI generated code, so I hope you're happy not using a desktop, or graphics in general

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this is why nano is superior

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What a strange way to spell emacs

[–] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

emacs is a fantastic operating system, it just lacks a good editor.

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