Related:

This is in a PR where Shougo, another long-time contributor, communicates entirely in walls of unparseable AI slop text: https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/19413

Thank you for the detailed feedback! I’ve addressed all the issues:

Thank you for the feedback! I agree that following the Vim 8+ naming convention makes sense.

Thank you for the feedback on naming!

Thanks for the suggestion! After thinking about this more, I believe repeat_set() / repeat_get() is the right choice:

Thank you for the feedback. A brief clarification.

https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116176001750596207

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  • CXORA@aussie.zoneEnglish
    517·
    2 days ago

    Yes… they chose to give the tool a male name. Did this need to be said ?

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      104·
      2 days ago

      Yes, because the person I was replying to said:

      Couldn’t help but notice the casual gendering of Claude to “he” as well.

      “Casual gendering” is implying the Vim author calling Claude “he” was totally out of the blue. It’s not “casual”; it’s something Anthropic baked in by giving it a male name.

      • CXORA@aussie.zoneEnglish
        164·
        2 days ago

        Casual doesnt mean “out of the blue”, it means reflexive or without effort.

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
          74·
          2 days ago

          Sure, I know what “casual” means and that out of the meanings, a more apt one I should’ve chosen would’ve been “incidental”. That doesn’t change my overall point that they’re putting the entire onus of the gendering on the author as though it isn’t the same as someone calling Alexa “she”.

          Replace this entire scenario with someone calling Alexa “she”: the accusation of “casual gendering” would obviously be ridiculous, because Alexa has a popular female given name.