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Modern LLMs are ok with that, but they do make silly mistakes; and a major problem here is that your init.el stops being your own, if it’s written and maintained by an LLM, you will have no idea what’s going on there. And if you would be reviewing every single line of your init file, then what’s the point

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By elapsed time, I use vim to edit my init.el more than for anything else.

That's a skillset any coder in 2026 pretty much has to pick up. If you don't understand the code an LLM writes for you for your day job then you're contaminating your employer's code base with slop. But if you don't use an LLM then you're not as valuable to your employer as you otherwise would be. So most of us need to figure out how to use an LLM and still understand the code.

Using an LLM on init.el is a lot easier than using it in your day job. A 2 line change that you told the LLM to make is easy to internalize.

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