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I am slightly disappointed that emacs has not yet (somehow) become the leading agent. Seems built for it.

I guess some people don't like the extra hassle to get Vi bindings :-D

What makes emacs a good interface for agentic stuff? I like emacs as an editor, I don’t really see what would make it useful for AI

Run as server, agent can run arbitrary elisp

Emacs makes for excellent Agent harness. With https://github.com/xenodium/agent-shell/ , this is the only UI I use for working with agents.

What makes this great is infinite hack-ability of the interface and agents have become pretty good at writing elisp packages, so basically you can have a workflow exactly how you want.

I wish I had time to make a screencast about this, but If you are a Emacs user and not using Emacs for agentic stuff, you are missing out IMO.

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