Is there a standard for integrating agentic coding tools into an editor similar to how an LSP allows the integration of language-specific features?
Its not that I dislike Cursor, its that I dont have time to put up with its compromises for non-extreme-power-user accessibility. I need an extreme power, cost indifferent, tuned for the margins stack.
That's nothing with a VSCode base that I know about, and I've tried Cline and Roo and Continue and written a bunch MCP servers and I measure it all, not even close.
I bet the neovim people have something just as good.
It's good for what it is but I don't love that I have to change to a whole-ass new editor to get access to the agentic additions, when alternatives that require an API key or a more flexible CLI tool can do a better job.
I’d love to hear more about your workflow if you have time to share!
For Claude Code I'm rapidly switching anything I want "vibe coded" into Hadkell for code, Dhall for config, and check-heavy Nix for deploy. Between that and some property tests that I seed and then have Opus elaborate on, you can put Claude Code so restrictive that it just hits the compiler in a loop until useful code comes out. Its trapped: I hoist CLAUDE.md in from the Nix store so it physically can't edit out the brutal prompts around mocks and lies, and -Wall -Werror in GHC gives it nowhere to hide, all it can do is burn tokens and desperately Web Search tool until it gets it perfect ish or I cut off its money because this requires a real LLM minimum and likely a real programmer. If there's a property test welded into the type system it can't even fail to use a parameter: that's an error Claude.
I have a bunch of elisp in // hypermodern // emacs for things like OpenRouter integration and tool use, but frankly, stock gptel is so strong I always wonder if I'm getting my money's worth trying to tune it into the asymptote.
Happy to answer any more questions.
Also as another Emacs user I'm wondering what lesser known packages or elisp snippets do you use? gptel, magit, tramp and org-mode are the usually touted killer features, but what else do you use in the Emacs ecosystem?
Let me know if you have any questions (or suggestions for that matter, it's rough in places).
I aspire to be a lot faster than this stuff (I've built faster stuff than this) but this is quite a good library (amazingly good by OSS standards, good stuff in this area is rarely OSS, props to the maintainers): https://github.com/crypto-chassis/ccapi, in particular this library does a really good job of being correct across a lot of surface area, it's serious people doing it, and there are forks of it that use DPDK floating around.
If by who's paying for it you mean the big Anthropic bill? My boss's boss is pretty enlightened about the fact that learning how to use AI well is expensive, so when I'm on a tight schedule I get a pretty forgiving budget for the model fees. It's a pretty serious perk in the sense that it's really expensive to master using these things :)
I take it this is all back-end work? Have you tried out one of the Haskell-y front-end languages? Elm?
> Both of these are very (!!!) well complimented by magit, which is so good at AI supervision it seems designed for it, by a genius.
Can you expand a little on this point?
https://gist.github.com/b7r6/84c6ab80c0b8bd5267b8c436e4d00a8...
https://gist.github.com/b7r6/23cfacbf181c9b0447841c798345a79...
The AI stuff doesn't work without this running:
https://gist.github.com/b7r6/449faab9b5be00867f2e8053c610bdb...
That lets me publish my API vendor keys without issues:
https://gist.github.com/b7r6/fe96bd0cc37d72c1991d84d1984371b...
Slow your roll. Nothing you write will matter in six months.
But as a guy who is a known enemy of the Valley establishment to begin with rebuilding from all that? When I say I'm dead serious, I'm being earnest.
If you don't have a family/community safety net and/or a plugged-in nepo golden age network?
Stack cash on hand like your life depends on it, because it fucking does.
signed:
someone who was broke fifteen years ago and has been stacking cash on hand ever since.
And a shitty job is no guarantee of a shitty room now, you see homeless people still in the Best Buy shirt they were wearing when they got laid off, and Best Buy is nowhere near the worst job.
I thought working hard and being really good at computer stuff was basically some kind of bare minimum job guaranteed, that being free with my money might mean not retiring young. Didn't realize tech employment was war.
Wrong. Won't make that mistake again.
FWIW, Vim (and presumably emacs) can run terminals as well as do things like ssh and ftp. Though I'm pretty sure the easiest thing to do would just be to use the Ctrl-R pattern in vim and have it send curl requests in a different buffer. As far as I'm aware, all the major LLM platforms have APIs that can be accessed through curl (or any other way you want to to GET/PUT requests). Here's something I found with a quick Google search[0].
So I'm not sure there needs to be "a standard" so much as "can it do http requests?" which is yes. I mean with this I think you can also see it wouldn't be too hard to set up and connect to a LLM hosted on the LAN. Could do it all through ssh
[0] https://arjunaravind.in/blog/using-vim-as-a-http-client/
But the short answer is no. Not yet.
I'm pretty happy just letting the standalone agent write to the file and then reloading it in my editor.
Though I wish the agent CLI tools would use something like inotify to notice when I've made a manual change to a file that they've recently written and then do a better job of incorporating that change as feedback to inform future edits.