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I tend to think about it like vim - you will feel slow and annoyed for the first few weeks, but investing in these skills are massive +EV long term

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Yet a lot of people never bother to learn vim, and are still outstanding and productive engineers. We're surely not seeing any memos "Reflexive vim usage is now a baseline expectation at [our company]" (context: https://x.com/tobi/status/1909251946235437514)

The as-of-yet unanswered question is: Is this the same? Or will non-LLM-using engineers be left behind?

Perhaps if we get the proper thought influencers on board we can look forward to C-suite VI mandates where performance reviews become descriptions of how we’ve boosted our productivity 10x with effective use of VI keyboard agents, the magic of g-prefixed VI technology, VI-power chording, and V-selection powered column intelligence.

letting people pick their own editors is a zirp phenomenon

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