Something like https://graphite.com/ to create stacked PRs that are reviewable probably would have helped. Can be replicated with local LLMs or remote AI providers with locally configured agentic workflows. Never used graphite personally, but I’ve seen some open source maintainers use it to split up large PRs.

Like, from Yellow Dog Linux? Was my first Linux distro as a kid (grew up with an Apple computer). Red Hat based so checks out. TIL.

neovim user (inside zellij) and same. More of a full blown IDE than an editor.

Also for the keybind memory impaired like myself:

• https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim
• native which-key in emacs

Totally agree with your overall point.

That said, I have to come to the defense of my terminal UI (TUI) comrades with some anecdotal experience.

I’ve got all the same tools in Neovim as my VSCode/Cursor colleagues, with a deeper understanding of how it all works under the hood.

They have no idea what an LSP is. They just know the marketing buzzword “IntelliSense.” As we build out our AI toolchains, it doesn’t even occur to them that an agent can talk to an LSP to improve code generation because all they know are VSCode extensions. I had to pick and evaluate my MCP servers from day one as opposed to just accepting the defaults, and the quality of my results shows it. The same can be done in GUI editors, but since you’re never forced to configure these things yourself, the exposure is just lower. I’ve had to run numerous trainings explaining that MCPs are traditionally meant to be run locally, because folks haven’t built the mental model that comes with wiring it all up yourself.

Again, totally agree with your overall point. This is more of a PSA for any aspiring engineers: TUIs are still alive and well.

There is a praise/validation kink for that.

https://www.zimaspace.com/ - Low end Zimaboard is $90.

https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h4/ - Cheapest seems to be H4 at $99.

These are from the last time I researched as I was in the same boat.

I had specific PCI requirements, so there may be cheaper.

Soma. Its like sleepytime ecstasy that lasts 20-30min.

high levels of serotonin in the body - agitation, hallucinations, fever, sweating, shivering, fast heart rate, muscle stiffness, twitching, loss of coordination, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea.

https://www.drugs.com/soma.html

robopuke

That’s one of the things I appreciate in a language/framework. Drives me nuts getting an exception from a dependency of a dependency of a dependency.

Even better if its baked into the type system and I can’t run my code without handling it.