> I can find dozens of other famous people doing something similar.
The interpretation can be doubted, but you have to give credit to Elon Musk for being an actual techno-fascist coming from a family of pro-apartheid racists. Maybe it's not technically a nazi salute, but you can't argue it's not a fascist salute given his political inclinations.
> And the AfD isn't a neo-Nazi group.
Please read up on the AfD. They have nazi references in their propaganda, actual nazis in their ranks, and an actual nazi program. On that last point, when they plan secret meetings for deporting wrong-race german citizens, that's straight out of Hitler's playbook, and was his solution before the "final solution" (mass extermination).
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're simply uninformed and not actually downplaying nazism. Happy to provide sources for a specific point if you can't find any.
This is insulting to our craft, like going to a woodworkers convention and assuming "most of [them]" are using 3D-printers and laser cutters.
Half the developers I know still don't use LSP (and they're not necessarily older devs), and even the full-time developers in my circle resist their bosses forcing Copilot or Claude down their throats and use in fact 0 AI. Living in France, i don't know a single developer using AI tools, except for drive-by pull-request submitters i have never met.
I understand the world is nuanced and there are different dynamics at play, and my circles are not statistically representative of the world at large. Likewise, please don't assume this literally world-eating fad (AI) is what "most of us" are doing just because that's all the cool kids talk about.
Your IDE either uses an LSP or has its own baked-in proprietary version of a LSP. Nobody, and I mean nobody, working on real projects is "raw dawgin" a text file.
Most modern IDE's support smart auto-complete, a form of AI assistance, and most people use that at a minimum. Further, most IDE's do support advanced AI assisted auto-complete via copilot, codex, Claude or a plethora of other options - and many (or most) use them to save time writing and refactoring predictable, repetitive portions of their code.
Not doing so is like forgoing wheels on your car because technically you can just slide it upon the ground.
The only people I've seen in the situation you've described are students at university learning their first language...
I write code exclusively in vim. Unless you want to pretend that ctags is a proprietary version of an LSP, I'm not using an LSP either. I work at a global tech company, and the codebase I work on powers the datacenter networks of most hyperscalers. So, very much a real project. And I'm not an outlier, probably half the engineers at my company are just raw dawgin it with either vim or emacs.
Ctags are very limited and unpopular. Most people do not use them, by any measurement standard.
Using a text editor without LSP or some form of intellisense in 2026 is in the extreme minority. Pretending otherwise is either an attempted (and misguided) "flex" or just plain foolishness.
> probably half the engineers at my company are just raw dawgin it with either vim or emacs
Both vim and emacs support LSP and intellisense. You can even use copilot in both. Maybe you're just not aware...
When your language has neither name-mangling nor namespaces, a simple grep gets you a long way, without language specific support. Ma editor (not sure if it counts as IDE?) uses only words in open documents for completions and that is generally enough. If I feel like I want to use a lot of methods from a particular module I can just open that module.
I don't use an IDE under the common definition. All my developer friends use neovim, emacs, helix or Notepad++. I'm not a student. The people i have in mind are not students.
Your ai-powered friends and colleagues are not statistically representative. The world is nuanced, everyone is unique, and we're not sociologists running a long study about what "most of us" are doing.
> forgoing wheels on your car
Now you're being silly. Not using AI to program is more akin to not having a rocket engine on your car. Would it go faster? Sure. Would it be safer? Definitely not. Do some people enjoy it? Sure. Does anyone not using it miss it? No.
I didn't say using different technology was cheating, and metal tools are certainly part of woodworking for thousands of years so that's not really comparable.
It's also very different because there's a qualitative change between metal woodworking tools and a laser cutter. The latter requires electricity and massive investments.
I'm not an expert in any way, but i personally benchmarked [1] juiceFS performance totalling collapsing under very small files/operations (torrenting). It's good to be skeptical, but it might just be that the bar is very low for this specific usecase (IIRC juiceFS was configured and optimized for block sizes of several MBs).
I have very limited experiences with object storage, but my humble benchmarks with juicefs + minio/garage [1] showed very bad performance (i.e. total collapse within a few hours) when running lots of small operations (torrents).
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of tuning that can be achieved, but after days of reading docs and experimenting with different settings i just assumed JuiceFS was a very bad fit for archives shared through Bittorrent. I hope to be proven wrong, but in the meantime i'm very glad zerofs was mentioned as an alternative for small files/operations. I'll try to find the time to benchmark it too.
I've never used JuiceFS in prod (or any S3 product for that matter), but i was involved in benchmarking juiceFS+garage for archiving based on torrents, and initial results were promising but qBittorrent quickly produced a pathological case where reads/writes dropped to almost zero (and stayed that way long term).
Every software's perf is optimized for a usage pattern and maybe TFA's benchmark or torrenting isn't it, but i was certainly disappointed in the performance i found on 12 core / 144GB / NVME (for metadata) / 6x8TB HDD (for data). In the end we didn't move to S3 we stayed with good old ZFS storage.
I'd be curious to reproduce my benchmarks with ZeroFS when i find the time.
The interpretation can be doubted, but you have to give credit to Elon Musk for being an actual techno-fascist coming from a family of pro-apartheid racists. Maybe it's not technically a nazi salute, but you can't argue it's not a fascist salute given his political inclinations.
> And the AfD isn't a neo-Nazi group.
Please read up on the AfD. They have nazi references in their propaganda, actual nazis in their ranks, and an actual nazi program. On that last point, when they plan secret meetings for deporting wrong-race german citizens, that's straight out of Hitler's playbook, and was his solution before the "final solution" (mass extermination).
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're simply uninformed and not actually downplaying nazism. Happy to provide sources for a specific point if you can't find any.