🔗 The Emacsification of Software

But AI agents have fracked Emacs culture, and it’s leaking out into the wider world. Given access to a screen and inputs, agents reliably build native user interfaces. Native UI was the province of professionally packaged programs. Now it’s all as bespoke as your editor configuration. And, while I’m sure there’s an upper limit to how good those interfaces can be (with current frontier models), that ceiling is higher than anything you can do in a TUI. Source: The Emacsification of Software The emacs-ification of apps is quite a memorable turn of phrase for the personal software golden age we are living in. If the outcome is that we have more native apps that are crafted or even drafted to cure a personal itch, that’s a totally fine outcome. Still, every once in a while, one of these programs will escape containment. It’ll be useful enough for more than one person to install. But even then, the released artifact won’t be the most important thing about it. The source code won’t be…