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Technically that doesn't prove Socrates never said it, he might've, though it would be one hell of a coincidence. It amuses me to think we'll never know.

There's probably something with with your installation or configuration. For me Emacs has always felt fast and has been getting faster, the biggest jump being of course the native compiler.

I'm an Emacs users, so unsurprisingly I use magit, but perhaps surprisingly I use it sparingly, using Emacs's VC most of the time.

Someone should still rename it, even if that someone is not you. 😅

There's is already a fantastic programming language called q, you should rename yours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(programming_language_from_Kx_Systems)

The problem I have which which-key is that it applies only after a prefix.

There are commands which-key-show-major-mode and which-key-show-top-level, which you could use. On the embark side, there is embark-bindings which by default gives you bindings from the major mode and minor modes, but with C-u will give you global bindings.

Mutating a keymap with setc[ad]r is evil!

Agreed.

why not use (menu-item "dummy" KEYMAP :filter FUNCTION) instead?

Only because I didn't think of it!

I think you meant "tactile".

It depends on the type of facts, but sometimes it's much easier to verify an answer than to get the answer in the first place. For example sometimes the LLM will mention a keyword that you didn't know or didn't remember and that makes googling much easier.

And even among runtime environments some are much better than others. I don't really mind dotNet or the JVM that much, but Electron seems particularly wasteful. I don't use a single Electron app.

How could I forget to mention ctrl+f!

There are a couple of functions that web apps almost always have and that native apps tend to lack: (1) selecting and copying text from anywhere in the app to the clipboard; (2) bookmarking individual views within the app. Of course, natives apps in principle could be faster and use more of your hardware —in practice though, they tend to be horribly bloated electron crapps. 😅 So yeah, a decent native app can be better than a web app, but good luck finding one for your purpose.

One interesting feature in this paper is that the programmers who used LLMs thought they were faster, they estimated it was saving about 20% of the time it would have taken without LLMs. I think that's a clear sign that you shouldn't trust your gut about how much time LLMs save you, you should definitely try to measure it.