You are assuming that there's something bad about everything you believe being false. There's a fair amount of evidence that it's a good thing. EG religious people being happier and living longer

The idea of "sentience" here could be replaced with "a soul" or "magic thinking powers" or almost anything else. It's an undefinable concept.

For the same reason that there are already lots of markdown editors out there. Why didn't the they all use the first one that came out?

I think this is different in different countries. I use them a lot in the UK and the customer support has been excellent.

I think it's really interesting that Void (and Zed) are both much more tastefully designed than Cursor, Windsurf or VSCode (though I wouldn't have expected VSCode to be well designed)

"The Rule of Three" I have been expressing as "it takes 3 points to make a straight line".

Any two points will look as if they are on a straight line, but you need a third point to confirm the pattern as being a straight line

There's a double space on this page: https://www.otherbranch.com/for-engineers in "arbitrary black box" and it's really annoying me, but I can't see anyway to tell anyone about it

Ratners is the famous example that springs to mind here in the UK.

Can it do multiline search and replace?

ast-grep and gritql can.

> Hello. I am rational developer. I am very clever and very rational. Devoid of emotion. Oh what is this? [Something has changed that I don't like]. What is this bubbling feeling in me? An emotional response? No way. I am rational. Therefore these changes must be objectively stupid and dumb and wrong. Let me explain why.

I certainly do this a lot.

I'm going to put that paragraph on a postcard and put it up in my office to try to remind me about it.

(It would also be helpful to come up with a name for this phenomenon).

>It would also be helpful to come up with a name for this phenomenon

I believe it would be called rationalization[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)

I highly recommend reading "Who Moved My Cheese?" By Dr Spencer Johnson. I'm not one for self-help books, but this really did make me think about how I look at change generally.

We all do it a lot. We are primary emotional beings and we go around pretending we are rational. Life gets a lot easier and more comprehensible when you start paying attention to it.

I think anyone who thinks they don’t do this should think again, and refer to the postcard. Myself included!