I saw this attempt in the Emacs mailling list, but didn't draw much attention to it — like, LMAO, one more vibecoded patch in the endless stream of e-mails, pretending that it was made with accuracy, attention to details, care and understanding of internals it was changing.
Times passed and in my Fediverse timeline suddenly popped the blogpost from the "author" of the before-mentioned slop-patch: https://xlii.space/eng/honesty-gets-emacs-patch-rejected/ (from some bot with Lobste.rs links). I opened it and realized that things were much worse
Obvious thing, which relates almost to the all vibecoders, were in place — I speaking about some kind of "Silicon Valley big corpo boss mentality" — when you interested only in result and don't care about the process. I pretty sure, if some genie made possible to just snap the fingers and the software you want just appears on the your desk — then all the vibecoders of the world will be thrilling from happiness. Such people didn't understand and possibly will never understand that someone may have some fun from the process, not only from result
In case of Emacs the "don't care" part was in bruteforcing the LLM-generated patches with benchmarks, while the measured (I hope, the benchmarks were correctly specified) values become the expected. Yeah, looks like this is how they (vibecoders) massacred my boy (CS and CE) — now literally the millions of electrical monkeys smashing the typewriters' keyboards while they will produce the Tolstoy's "War and Peace" — instead of deep, concise understanding of the subject.
> I’m not going to work on Emacs anymore.
THANKS GOD!
P.S. Modern obsession with size of community and welcoming of each member, even if this member damaging the commons, on which this community are working — is a cringe, btw.
> I dislike when people tell me I’m holding the stick wrong - especially when I work on something out of my own volition.
That's how real human-to-human (not human-to-LLM) interaction works — you may do something by your own and the other people may dislike it. Really dude, stop vibecoding, "hooking up instrumentation" and just go out, touch the grass and speak with real people, I beg you
#AInt