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by skydhash 399 days ago
Where are these repetitive, monotonous work so I can se send a job application there.

Even on a greenfield project, I rarely spend more than a day setting up the scaffolding and that’s for something I’ve not touched before. And for refactoring and tests, this is where Vim/Emacs comes in.
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cess11 399 days ago
Many people doing code for money never or only rarely used any form of code generation until it was given to them as a SaaS in exchange for copies of the code they work on.

I've been surprised by this for a long time, having seen coworkers spend days typing in things manually that they could have put there with IDE capabilities, search-replace, find -exec or a five minute script.

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echelon 399 days ago
> And for refactoring and tests, this is where Vim/Emacs comes in.

I've used Vim bindings and strongly typed languages with IDEs that have strong AST-based refactoring my entire career.

Nothing comes close to changing one condition of a test and having the AI autocomplete magically suggest the correct series of ten updates that fix the test. In under the blink of an eye, too.

Everything is truly changing in big ways.

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skydhash 399 days ago
> Nothing comes close to changing one condition of a test and having the AI autocomplete magically suggest the correct series of ten updates that fix the test. In under the blink of an eye, too.

But why are you doing this? Granted, you may have a longer career than I do, but I never once think: The test condition is wrong, let's update it. Oh, I wish I could update the code alongside it!.

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