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Fun is a subjective metric. You can turn around the argument by saying it brings one joy to find new solutions to old problems with GH Copilot. And so on. Pers
by ulizzle 3y ago
Fun is a subjective metric. You can turn around the argument by saying it brings one joy to find new solutions to old problems with GH Copilot. And so on.
Personally, when in a flow state, I can't be interrupted. Eventually, it goes away, and I return from my trance to many unanswered messages and unread emails. Hopefully, it is nothing important, but life is cruel.
Some people need quiet to focus, and some like music or the TV playing in the background. I think the need is privacy. That's why working from home is so productive.
But for large, complex projects, an IDE is indispensable. Life's too short.
- berkes 3y agoFor me, Copilot is a tool to keep in the flow. It handles the plumbing while I can keep my focus entirely on the larger flow. No longer get pulled out of the flow because I have to look up the difference between, say, unwrap_or and map_or (rust), or how to map/reduce over a NodeList (TS, Js) or how to open a file only if it exists (python). I don't care, at this point, how it is done, I just want a "if_file_exists_open_it" or I just want to sum the numbers in the subtotal column of that HTML table. Or I just want to provide a default "free" string when shipping.cost is None etc. For me, flow isn't writing these very language specific algorithms, it's cruising along on a stable altitude.
- ulizzle 3y agoThat sounds right to me. I actually think I enjoy coding more now than in the past, writing function names and letting the IDE write the code itself.