🧑💻 The Loneliness of the Mid-Level Vimmer
ᐅ johnwhiles.com
「 Once you start using Vim, if you try and pair program with someone who isn't familiar with it, then they won't be able to take control of the keyboard and participate. And when you've been Vimming for a while and have developed bizarre muscle memory, and hyper-abstract ways of navigating a codebase2, it becomes difficult to work even with other people who use Vim 」
People still seem to think that for geographically distributed teams, meeting face to face is the key to success. I am of opinion that working together, like actually working together #PairProgramming, #EnsembleProgramming and sharing work as real team is much more key than traveling to meet people.
The perceived distance is almost as much of a choice as the physical distance. Show up for people, every day.
“Tim wasn’t delivering software; Tim was delivering a team that was delivering software. The entire team became more effective, more productive, more aligned, more idiomatic, more fun, because Tim was in the team.”
So I just had chatGPT write a python script to do some CSV data conversion. It defaults to using python panda, which is really nice, some of the merging in place and data modification it can do is really slick but it appends a .0 to most of the integers. So rather than figure out how to instruct it not to do that I literally told chatgpt not to use panda and it just spat out an old Timey CSV style script.
@kurtseifried
Yea. Totally.
I liked the rigorous quantitative testing these folks did. The 50% error rate just gives me hope that if I keep sharp, and train my team well, we can be more productive by just doing it ourselves the old fashioned way -- #teamwork with humans instead of machines.