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The devs do have my sympathy, they dedicate their time and energy for these projects and start burning out.
The solution obviously shouldn't be drowning it on slop. They should be just slowing down. Vim has been an excellent and functional tool for many years now, it doesn't need more speed.
There are better ways to use LLMs as a productivity tool.
I see this excuse of burn out every time it comes to LLM use, but i honestly do not buy it. You cant tell me every other dev out there just burnt out at the same time. If you use LLMs like this you simply dont care about the project anymore and should move on with your life. Its better for everyone if it gets abandoned by the original dev and forked by ones that care. Sometimes you just gotta let go.
Agreed. They need to take a break at least.
There aren't better ways, not in their current forms.
What I'm wondering is, why does Vim need new features in the core repo at all?
It's finished software at this point.
The dev should just do security upgrades and let extensions developed by other people handle additional functionality.
Emacs. C?min ;)