Scott Hanselman 👸🏽🐝🌮Hot take: folks are very much underestimating how important reasomanly fast and accurte typing is
Þór Sigurðsson@shanselman My typnig is boht reasomanly and accurte.
Jeff Atwood
We Are Typists First, Programmers Second
Remember last week when I said coding was just writing? I was wrong. As one commenter noted, it’s even simpler than that. [This] reminds me of a true “Dilbert moment” a few years ago, when my (obviously non-technical) boss commented that he never understood why it took months to
Ölbaum@codinghorror Unfortunately, especially if read quickly or not until the end, this perpetuates the incorrect belief that a sizeable portion of a developer’s time is spent typing, which was not as problem until it started being used to justify the use of LLMs to make developers appealed more efficient.
And even your valid example of typing faster helping with ADHD is not applicable to LLMs.
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@oscherler @shanselman so don't read quickly, and read to the end?
@codinghorror You are not *that* interesting.
This is an old post that will be misinterpreted en masse and used to justify LLM use in coding because the nuance comes too little, too late. Keep it buried.
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mchomer@shanselman hm.
That's correct. Do you have any tips and tricks to become a faster and more accurate typer?
That's correct. Do you have any tips and tricks to become a faster and more accurate typer?
@mchomer I used typing.io. You practise typing with actual code from popular open source projects in various languages. I liked it because you practise special characters from the beginning, whereas most tutors leave them to the last lessons, which makes it harder to put what you’ve learned in practise if you’re a programmer.
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haliphax 👾@shanselman But I understood you just fine, in spite of the typos 🤔
Mark Vaillancourt
Josh Rivers@shanselman …and freaking high contrast text. I gotta have small text to see the context (code or prose) but my vision is finding it ever-easier to miss my typos. Not needing accessibility features is always a temporary condition.
t0yv0@shanselman folks buying LLM subscriptions for this very reason eh
Mattias Karlsson (he/him)@shanselman I write promptly.
No comma, the spell chckr will fxi it four you!
Sorry. Spell chicken of curse
Evan K. Stone