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by surajrmal 20 days ago
That's the beauty of jj. It doesn't need critical mass. If the community remains small it's fine. If it blows up in adoption that's also fine.

Also there are many ways to use llms. Some people control it at code review, but others control it as the VCS.

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Sure just like any non-critical tool. It's optional.

LLMs will do most of the work anyways. And they don't need jj. Like I said, jj helps solving a human problem in an LLM era.

It's hardly worth using more of the precious LLM context with jj instructions when git does the job and is mandatory anyways.

jj is in the training data for at least Gemini these days. My experience is it uses less tokens to do similar workflows with jj vs git because they are simpler.

Also, remember that humans aren't going away. The touch points are changing but they still exist. The VCS is a common touch point for many and my preferred one. For others I'm sure it's online code review tools. If an agent is operating under my name in my workspace I want to manage it within the confines of my workspace. Once it becomes more agentic and operates as it's own entity I'm sure I'll change my mind but that's not the case today.