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S1E8: Show And Tell: Efrit: When Steve Gives Claude Full Access To 50 Years of Emacs Capabilities

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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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What HN commenters said

  1. “this is a fun watch”

    Steve Yegge demos Efrit giving Claude access to Emacs.

    refset, 2025-09 · Recommendation · in “Designing agentic loops”

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Topics: efrit, emacs, claude, steve yegge, agentic coding

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