alt Hacker NewsCulture change is hard.
A lot of humans still don't use git too.
Many do only when they are forced.
And it's much easier for a professional to be forced to use LLMs than jj when it comes to versioning assist (not even comparable in mindshare but the obvious needs to be said sometimes).
So unfortunately I'm afraid jj is not going to achieve critical mass before 99.99% of merges are done by AI which don't need jj.
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.