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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Every time I’ve tried helix, as a staunch neovim user, I’ve run up against frustration at the selection-first approach. In helix you have to select the function first, then delete it. In neovim I know that daf will delete the function and the line below it if there is one.

    It’s not better or worse IMHO, it’s just different enough that it requires me to go from thinking action-modifier-movement to thinking movement-modifier-action. I’ll probably keep giving it a shot every year or so though, always useful to try tools and see if something fits you better than what you have.


















  • The only things I’ve seen it do better than I could manage with a script or in Vim are things that require natural language comprehension. Like, “here’s an email forwarded to an app, find anything that sounds like a deadline” or “given this job description, come up with a reasonable title summary for the page it shows up on”… But even then those are small things that could be entirely omitted from the functionality of an app without any trouble on the user. And there’s also the hallucinations and being super wrong sometimes.

    The whole thing is a mess