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this is the kind of thing kakoune (helix's primary inspiration) excels at --- i can hook `fmt` to a non-whitespace character insertion and have auto-reflow as i type. of course, this requires the user implementing the script to get it right, but then you can pr it into kakoune's "stdlib" which gets loaded by default, so any user can use it. (though helix is getting a plugin system eventually, which hopefully alleviates the pain of slow merges.)

it got on my nerves to the point i switched to https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace, lol. things like smooth scroll help you follow your place in the text (its something i cant live without, even in a tui editor). a fullscreen workspace switch should not need that.

too many of them these days: https://kakoune.org/

smaller chunks works better, but ime, it takes as long as writing it manually that way, unless the chunk is very simple, e.g. essentially api examples. i tend not to use LLMs for planning because thats the most fun part for me :)

i'm an undergrad, so when i need to implement a paper, the idea is that i'm supposed to learn something from implementing it. i feel fortunate in that ai is not yet effective enough to let me be lazy and skip that process, lol

> how do you convert a paper into working code?

this is something i've found LLMs almost useless at. consider https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11908 --- the paper explains its proposed methodology pretty well, so i figured this would be a good LLM use case. i tried to get a prototype to run with gemini 2.5 pro, but got nowhere even after a couple of hours, so i wrote it by hand; and i write a fair bit of code with LLMs, but it's primarily questions about best practices or simple errors, and i copy/paste from the web interface, which i guess is no longer in vogue. that being said, would cursor excel here at a one-shot (or even a few hours of back-and-forth), elegant prototype?

i saw hazel mentioned forever ago in an eecs 203 lecture and it sent me on a multi-year fp/type theory rabbit hole :) thanks for your work on it!

we probably have disjoint ideas of the world's problems. why would that fix the world's problems? besides an appeal to authority via andrew tate...

i see lots of python with blocks like

    ###############################################################################
    ############################### LIBRARY IMPORTS ###############################
    ###############################################################################

    import sys
    from pathlib import Path

(not in this case but) it helps me for long files where modularization would be inconvenient

arabic can be VSO or SVO. i'm rather new to the langauge but tend to prefer VSO when writing, even as a native english speaker, which gets me to wonder if theres a correlation somewhere between arabic proficiency, other known languages, and VSO/SVO preference. my preference might come from the relative conciseness of VSO in arabic though; often placing the subject before the verb is a bit redundant given context. i'm sure theres a correlation to programming language typing schema somewhere there :)

have a look at river, theyre currently working on something like this!

lol, i distinctly remember calling mine "the sound of life" when i was younger. the metal shows didnt help it too much but its how it goes