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S1E8: Show And Tell: Efrit: When Steve Gives Claude Full Access To 50 Years of Emacs Capabilities
Vibe Coding With Steve and Gene
Steve Yegge shows Efrit, a tool that gives Claude full control of Emacs, on the Vibe Coding with Steve and Gene show. Claude opens info pages, runs shells and even draws a Mandelbrot fractal in a buffer.
HN shares it as a fun demo of an LLM driving a live Emacs process and orchestrating its long-standing ecosystem.
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