tangotaylor

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by tangotaylor 1y ago
I put a note at the end about that: the lack of a `set -e` / fail fast equivalent was a dealbreaker for me.
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I've returned to Linux but I miss PowerShell(chrisfun.xyz)
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
My favorite findings: * Fig 2b: the cycle time drops slightly around June and July. I have no idea why this is but it's amusing. * Fig 3: more coding days has very diminishing returns on cycle time. E.g. from eyeballing the graph, a 3x
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
> I'm worked on teams that are highly aligned on principles, style and understanding of the problem domain - they got there by deep collaboration - and have few comments on PRs. I've also seen junior devs go without support and
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by tangotaylor 1y ago
I think there's some truth here in that AI can be used as a band-aid to sweep issues of bad abstractions or terse syntax under the rug. For example, I often find myself reaching for Cursor/ChatGPT to help me with simple things in
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by tangotaylor 2y ago
> A recent academic paper found that software developers who used an A.I. coding assistant improved a key measure of productivity by more than 25 percent, and that the productivity gains appeared to be largest among the least experienced
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by tangotaylor 2y ago
This is awesome and it's one of the countermeasures that the book Chokepoint Capitalism proposed against enshittification. Imagine seeing Twitch, Nebula, Youtube, etc all in one aggregator app, then the switching cost of leaving one pl