Because Emacs is not a text editor, it's rather a text orchestrator. And Emacs Lisp is specifically text-oriented, unlike most other Lisps that are data-oriented. It fits incredibly well for LLM-flows. I'm surprised how it remains enormously flexible even though my workflows change every day. The way how I used LLMs last year vastly differs from a few months ago and totally unlike of today, yet bending Emacs never hits the ceiling.
If I had a way to send a message to my younger self, it would've been: "drop whatever you're doing, start grokking Linux, learn Emacs, and maybe Vim...". I never had any regrets about my career choices of the past, yet "fuck Microsoft!" I spent years digging dotnet, sqlserver, etc. I invested heavily into WPF and Silverlight, I believed their propaganda. I don't feel even a half-pint of value from the experiences I gained, it all turned out to be useless crap - none of it squeezed even a drop for becoming a hacker out of me. Learning FP, Lisp and Emacs brought me closer to that goal.
work amazingly well, almost perfect. I have not see anything come close to what you can do with emacs and the easy to which ai can be integrated and slotted into emacs.
Play blindfold chess. Once you get used to that, you "see" the state of the chessboard from beginning to end of a game, ply by ply, forwards and backwards, total recall 12 hours after.
See the reading list on topics of interest in the podcast "In our time." Thumb nail sketches of powerful people is a work by a Greek tutor transmitted somewhere in there.
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