Goodbye Neovim: A eulogy to a friend of 15 years
This is a small eulogy to a friend of 15 years. I started with vim in 2012, and got addicted. For years, it was a joy to fly around text: jumping, yanking, splitting, searching, refactoring — pure dopamine. Moving to Neovim, and the joy only grew.
But now I find myself using Claude, Cursor, and agents to do in minutes what used to take evenings. Sometimes what used to take weeks. The speed-up is easily 10x.
And I love that.
But I also realise something slightly sad: I miss the editor.
Vibe coding gives me output, but it does not give me that old dopamine rush of moving through code. I keep searching for excuses to use it, but switch halfway when i realise how slow it is compared to Cursor!
For those who have not realised it yet: the days of writing code by hand are ending. Period. You will not be just 'fixing the bugs made by AI'; there WILL be no bugs to fix in the near future!
The next generation of programmers will no longer be experts in a language: Python, Rust, JavaScript, or C++. They will be experts in using GPTs which will be experts in them all.