I was also intrigued by elm-pair. I think that kind of functionality would be really interesting to explore further - the UX seems remarkable if it works well.

In emacs this seems doable/possible with some kind’a syntax aware multi-cursor

Like if you start editing a symbol in a let binding, you’re most likely renaming that symbol and emacs could just get off its *rse and change the other occurences within the same lexical binding without me explicitly instructing it to do so?

I haven't looked at elm-pair yet, but I think a nice Ux would be something similar to what CoPilot does. It shows you a preview, inline of what the code would look like with its suggestion applied, and I can hit tab to accept it, or escape to reject. In this case the changes would often not be on-screen so it can't be exactly like this, but maybe something similar.

In Calva, Paredit actually isn't used for placing matching parens. We let VS Code do that. And it can of course miss, like he describes. But if you are in a situation where ”the closing paren already exists” then you already have broken structure and Paredit is at loss.

But generally, the situation he describes very, very seldomly shows up. At least when I code.

Obviously I help it along a bit with what I learnt in the mail thread, but anyway. Also, I haven't tried if it actually works. Next step is probably to hook this up to the REPL and facilitate a conversation between the bot and the REPL. I can imagine some TDD-ish workflow where I come up with edge cases and the bot and the REPL figure the solutions out. Haha.

I find that ChatGPT is actually really good at associative deductions like that. People trying to trick it with math or racism are really missing out.

e.g. https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/C03RZGPG3/p1670148541714999?thread_ts=1670087817.700179&cid=C03RZGPG3

I wouldn’t use it as a source for a paper, but if you’re stuck with a hard-to-google problem, then its value becomes quite apparent since it will usually always infer an answer. Even if the answer isn’t perfect, it still might be enough to get unstuck.

That's amazing! I learnt some datalog (I think).

I actually had it do a Marxist analysis of the SAFe environment I was working in at my last job. Safe to say, waterfall-by-SCRUM is a highly alienating way to organise a project 😛

SPOILER ALERT: I was being exploited 😛

Capital is machines, pure technics Why have solidarity with raw material?

"I for one, welcome our future machine overlords"

obviously, the SF twist is that the robots are sentient and realise they are being exploited like the working class and stand in solidarity with the working class humans

That's not a twist, that's a trope. A twist is economy is just a phenomenon from a super sentient AI sent from the future to bring itself into existence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTWmrnPdgk&ab_channel=CJTClol

Yeah, it does have a desolate vibe. I have only ever seen herons and the odd hawk, never vultures. It's not Africa 😉

😄

as slippery as it looks?

Thankfully not!