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title: "Emacsification of Software - Recommended read by @tqbf"
date: 2026-05-14
canonical: https://solmaz.io/x/2054849923162792320/
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license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Emacsification of Software - Recommended read by @tqbf

"Until now, the Achilles heel of Emacs culture has been that, except  for Magit, its packages tend to be wretched user experiences. Ugly,  slow, and discoverable only after inflicting years of elisp cortical  injuries on yourself.

But AI agents have fracked Emacs culture, and it’s leaking out into  the wider world. Given access to a screen and inputs, agents reliably  build native user interfaces. Native UI was the province of  professionally packaged programs. Now it’s all as bespoke as your editor  configuration. And, while I’m sure there’s an upper limit to how good  those interfaces can be (with current frontier models), that ceiling is  higher than anything you can do in a TUI."

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/05/12/emacsification/