Clojurians Log v2
cider 2026-09-21
Hi there, does the CIDER project have guidelines with respect to contributions created via LLM-based tools? After many years of Clojure dev in Neovim, I'm switching to Emacs and this is an important point for me as I choose my tooling.
I've found that emacs and cider are so amenable to local hacking that there's a good amount to accomplish and learn without forcing contribution too early. Welcome in, have a cider . 🙂
emphasizing the relevant part from the CIDER 2.0 blog post: > Second - and I know this is the controversial part - AI agents have been a genuinely great help. Not for writing CIDER for me (the design taste is still very much mine, thank you), but for quickly prototyping my half-formed ideas in different ways so I can see and feel them before committing to the approach I like best. Turns out “show me, don’t tell me” works wonders when the thing showing you can knock out a prototype in minutes. Boo me if you must, but when you’re the maintainer of so many projects and you have only so little time to spend on all of them that really makes a difference.
thanks for the links 🙏 really nice to see Bozhidar sharing their views around these tools; definitely appreciate this context and helps me with my decision
@phillipmates I still have to create some formal guidelines on the AI/LLM subject I guess, so let me know if there are topics you'd like to see covered in such a document.