vim-classic is a fork of Vim 8.2 created for long-term maintenance, explicitly rejecting generative AI tooling used by both Vim upstream and NeoVim. The author argues that generative AI produces inferior code, has significant environmental costs (energy, water, supply chains), centralizes power in large tech companies with
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