Vim's lead maintainer has fully lost his goddamn mind

[angiebaby@mas.to]

@AndrewRadev

Never trust anyone who uses their toddler as their avatar. Ever.

[ayushnix@social.ayushnix.com]

@AndrewRadev which means @neovim is tainted as well because it regularly pulls changes from Vim. I'm not sure if someone in the Neovim team uses LLMs as well, they probably do.

[wall_e@ioc.exchange]

@AndrewRadev @kunev I vividly remember having to discuss an essay article from the NYT or Guardian about "Visions of the future" for my English final exams in 2011.

In it the author described scenes where users' soon to be ubiquitous AR glasses, might show them likable cartoon characters from their youth instead of homeless people on the street.

This feels like that

[barubary@infosec.exchange]

@KatS @AndrewRadev There are "Claude" commits in both vim and neovim, so I'm basically committed to never upgrading ever again.

[kats@chaosfem.tw]

@barubary Oh, hell.
Good to know, though; thanks.
@AndrewRadev

[kats@chaosfem.tw]

@barubary :exasperated groan: This may finally push me into switching to emacs, and figuring out how to make it functional as a replacement.
@AndrewRadev

[steko@scholar.social]

@AndrewRadev unfortunately it's happening to curl, too

[freya@chaosfem.tw]

@AndrewRadev that........................... that is deeply horrifying

[geospaz@mastodon.social]

@kunev @AndrewRadev "the monkey's paw curls"

I've had minimal non-consentual contact with llm-app responses, but those leading sentences of a stochastic parrot reply really really get to me (due to people copypasting slop at me with zero human interaction/filtering/etc)

[lhp@mastodon.social]

@KatS @barubary @AndrewRadev don't switch yet. GNU is still discussing whether to allow LLM vomitted code contributions. Them of all projects not rejecting it on ideological grounds and some emacs manitainers seemingly liking LLMs is not a good sign though.

I will be MAD if I have to abandon emacs because of this shit

[kats@chaosfem.tw]

@lhp @barubary @AndrewRadev This is the new "floor is lava", isn't it?

[phl@mastodon.social]

@steko @AndrewRadev My impression was that they use "AI assisted" code analysers that are rather a different technology from the slop parrots being used here in vim. Daniel has a firm (and negative) opinion about slop for multiple reasons, IIRC.

[phl@mastodon.social]

@lhp @KatS @barubary @AndrewRadev Didn't Hurd recently get some vommits?

[cuboci@tech.lgbt]

@ansuz @AndrewRadev Switch to what though? VSCode? 😭

[kats@chaosfem.tw]

@lhp @barubary @AndrewRadev Well, if I'm going to have to maintain my own locally-compiled fork of an editor, I may as well go the whole hog.

[cuboci@tech.lgbt]

@ansuz @AndrewRadev I can't learn a completely new editor. 😟 Vim/Neovim is muscle memory.

[ansuz@gts.cryptography.dog]

@cuboci @AndrewRadev I'm not gonna say I won't learn something new if I have sufficient reason to do so, but it would be incredibly frustrating to have to do so for such a ridiculous reason.

By all accounts Bram Moolenaar seemed like a good person, and it's terrible to see his project being (mis)managed in this way.

[cuboci@tech.lgbt]

@ansuz @AndrewRadev To be fair, reading the conversation it seems the maintainer (chrisbra) used Claude to find problems with the proposed changes. The AI slop came from the PR author.

[tragivictoria@mastodon.catgirl.cloud]

@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot @AndrewRadev@hachyderm.io what does it have to do with anything?

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@wall_e @AndrewRadev @kunev

Mark Osborne's MORE short film on a similar theme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk