It really is! For anyone who’d wanted to try Emacs but found it overwhelming, AI is game changing.

BTW, I’ve been using Emacs for like 30 years. I’m comfy with it. The bankruptcy is more about throwing out an old config that’s gotten big and crufty and restarting doing things the new way. For example, trying all the new completion stuff instead of corfu/vertico/etc., which are supremely nice but perhaps no longer essential. Similarly, a few years ago I went from lsp-mode to eglot, because it’s built in and a nice baseline.

I also tried lsp-mode first but then thought "Let's see what the built-in has to offer, if that's simpler." and am sticking with eglot since then. It does enough for me, and the configuration is manageable.

Same. lsp-mode's quite nice, to be sure, but eglot's also excellent and it's been completely sufficient for my needs.

Yeah, I've always had the problem in Emacs that I know some quality of life feature would be possible to implement, but it'd take me hours or days so I just end up going back to work. With gptel, I've been able to really take control of my environment. And what's great is the LLM can write better LLM-integration functions too so you really end up with the perfect harness for whatever you're doing.