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I see a future in jj

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291 points steveklabnik | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 17:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Bolwin ◴[22 Oct 25 18:13 UTC] No.45673013[source]▶
Since JJ has technically git compat, I think there's 2 things needed for it to take off

1. A good vscode extension (there's two so-so ones that I'm not sure are being updated) 2. LLM knowledge. I ask gpt-5 about doing something in jj the other day, it didn't even recognize it at first. When I reminded it it was a vcs it hallucinated half the commands. I ended up figuring it out myself from the docs

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nonethewiser ◴[22 Oct 25 19:04 UTC] No.45673670[source]▶
You're kind of right about LLM knowledge but the implication is funny. We just cant be expected to learn new things without LLMs...
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klardotsh ◴[22 Oct 25 19:28 UTC] No.45673988[source]▶
What a terrible world we're barrelling towards when "LLMs don't know about it" is considered a blocker towards something taking off. Read a blog post, read a man page (which GP says was indeed their solution), or just play with the dang tool, I assure you these things are still possible without the assistance of a predictive text engine helping you!
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1. senderista ◴[22 Oct 25 20:16 UTC] No.45674604[source]▶
One problem is that Stack Overflow isn’t being updated with questions about new tools because it’s been crowded out by LLMs, so the LLMs can’t train on these nonexistent new questions/answers.