Comment by TeMPOraL

> In reality, plenty of folks just turned vim into a fighter jet and did just as well without super-heavyweight llms.

No, they didn't.

You can get vim and Emacs on par with IDEs[0] somewhat easily thanks to Language Server Protocol. You can't turn them into "fighter jets" without "super-heavyweight LLMs" because that's literally what, per GP, makes an editor/IDE a fighter jet. Yes, Emacs has packages for LLM integration, and presumably so does Vim, but the whole "fighter jet vs. bicycle" is entirely about SOTA LLMs being involved or not.

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[0] - On par wrt. project-level features IDEs excel at; both editors of course have other aspects that none of the IDEs ever come close to.