Local Maxima

Spent more sleepless nights than I care to admit creating the perfect from scratch configuration for Neovim (just to settle on Helix). Obsessed over optimizing finger moving distance of keystrokes for common code editing operations. Then AI happened. All action is in VS Code based editors, Claude Code and the likes, or online agents. The ROI of those hours optimizing a fringe terminal editor? - Look extra silly! How many milliseconds is my sweet sweet keyboard shortcut speeding me up today? Let’s ask Claude.