2026

Emacs, Software Development, and LLM

Built my entire first open-source C++ library completely inside Emacs — no IDE, just pure Emacs. Then r/cpp rejected the announcement because “the whole project is LLM-generated slop.” Welcome to the new normal.

The Emacs Cat

Part 1. Emacs and Software Development

Just a couple of days ago, I published on GitHub my first open-source project, the TEC library, a lightweight and fast C++ framework designed for efficient …