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> Emacs continues to have zero built in Emacs has 35+ different AI tools. https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/1uwm3c0/the_state_of_agentic_coding_tools_in

• kstrauser 2mo ago
  That's correct. But most of the time when I see that question lately, it's because people want to be sure the editor doesn't have "built-in AI", whatever that might happen to mean. For example, I've seen lots of comments like "I like Zed but wish there was a version with no AI support in it whatsoever". I don't share that opinion. It's one I've seen many times. I don't think that Emacs ships with any AI agent support today, and that makes some people happy, so I mentioned it. Note that I also mentioned that there are packages that do add that support, and I happily use them.
• peri-cl 2mo ago
  > "Emacs has 35+ different AI tools." Way more than that if you count all the unpublished homebrew balls of glue. I've been playing with writing my own lately. I just wrote a cool (IMHO) macro for defining tools, a defun-like form that at once generates both a callable Elisp function, and all the RPC pageantry needed for AI to call that function. From the same syntactic form. The first tool I wrote was a function for retrieving source definitions of Elisp functions. Just enough to bootstrap the LLM harness into studying its own source code, reading one function's source and requesting new functions in turn, following the callgraph. It's neat to watch. It can dive into Emacs' internals too, since those are Elisp also. It's a fun project.