Yeah, I'd feel threatened if the only thing I did was type code based on detailed requirements someone else creates – but typing code into an editor is only about 15% of my work building software
@simonw
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Quick Syntax Learning Without Memorizing Extensive Trivia
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Right – it's a really quick way of getting basic syntax right, so you don't have to memorize a ton of trivia just to get something basic done without needing to look up each thing in turn
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Skilled programmers overcome time constraints in development work
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It helps that they were skilled programmers already, it was just the time constraint that was keeping them from hacking on things
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Engineering Managers Coding Again with LLM Assistance
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I've talked to a few people who switched to engineering management roles years ago and are finding they can churn out little bits of working code again now because with LLM-assistance they can get something productive done in the much smaller amounts of available time they have
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MacWhisper Audio Transcription Tool Gains Journalist Adoption
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Trying it now! And thanks so much for MacWhisper, I use it several times a week and recommend it to journalists all the time
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MacWhisper Bulk Transcription Mode Feature Discovery
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Turns out MacWhisper grew bulk transcription mode at some point without me noticing, I'm using that
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Misunderstanding What Software Developers Actually Do
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I'm pretty sure the people who were pushing that narrative didn't really understand what software developers actually do
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Extract unstructured field notes into structured column data
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Or you could scratch down unstructured notes in the iPhone notes app and paste them into datasette-extract to turn them into column data when you get back from the field trip
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Datasette Plugins for Offline Data Writing Solutions
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Nothing for offline yet but that would make an excellent plugin! A bunch of options:
– Writable canned queries: https://
docs.datasette.io/en/stable/sql_
queries.html#writable-canned-queries
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– https://
github.com/datasette/data
sette-write-ui
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Improving Homebrew Documentation for Open Source Tools
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I wish Homebrew was better about providing usage documentation! https://
formulae.brew.sh/formula/whispe
r-cpp
… has basically no clues at all – the best I could find was the test in the formula and that's still not enough information: