Honestly, this sounds nice if somewhat austere. I often feel like customizing my editor or environment beyond very simple tools creates a brittle environment that I don't enjoy maintaining. Of course, it might be brittle precisely because I don't enjoy maintaining. At the end of the day, you gotta follow your groove despite what other people say.
when you started this idea prompt/writing prompt of "your worst practice" I noodled on it to come up with a good one and "don't use an IDE" was the best I could come up with. It is hard to answer the question without restoring to a humblebrag - the people you are going to interview are effective, so how bad can their worst practice really be?
I totally see your point, but I think you'd be surprised! I'm hopeful that's the fun part of this series. So let me know what you think of the next few episodes.
This sounds like my coding practice. I use vim because it’s faster than any IDE I’ve tried, and because I loved ex/vi in college. I use the bang command extensively to run sed commands and auto formatters on blocks of code.
Yeah I used vim primarily up until like 6 weeks ago when I decided to really give cursor a shot. For the first week I really didnt like it because the workflow was so different it felt bad. In the second week of my trial I started grudgingly admitting it might be a bit faster for some types of work. And now six weeks on I really don't think I would ever go back. It took a while to update my workflow and learn to effectively use the LLM (and when to ignore it) but I would say I am probably a reasonable 30% faster with cursor than without, and most of that is to do with the chat session integration rather than the autocomplete which I'm still a little sceptical about tbh. And the thing is these tools are still somewhat in their infancy. They will only get better so I figure I may as well just get used to it now.
That’s so funny. I assumed because he started programming young that he had hours and hours of programming in front of the computer at a young age - but he only had 2 hours of screen time per week. Jaw dropping.
i code in ubuntu gedit, theres built-in syntax highlighting for many languages and formats, focus more on coding, just write then pass it through formatters and linters.
I'm probably way out of touch with modern text editors, but I missed out on when vim became considered a simple one. Kindda wish Mitchell would be using a simple code editor like sam, or something.
@@WorstPractices i use notepad++ for everything and the other day I got called out a criminal by using it 😂 No idea why...it has minimalistic features I got to actually open docs if I forgot something. For me it is my best practice which is considered the worst practice by most programmers these days.
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Honestly, this sounds nice if somewhat austere. I often feel like customizing my editor or environment beyond very simple tools creates a brittle environment that I don't enjoy maintaining. Of course, it might be brittle precisely because I don't enjoy maintaining. At the end of the day, you gotta follow your groove despite what other people say.
Two of my favorite programmers in one Video.
Needs to be longer, as a hobby coder I could hear the guest talk for an hour.
when you started this idea prompt/writing prompt of "your worst practice" I noodled on it to come up with a good one and "don't use an IDE" was the best I could come up with. It is hard to answer the question without restoring to a humblebrag - the people you are going to interview are effective, so how bad can their worst practice really be?
I totally see your point, but I think you'd be surprised! I'm hopeful that's the fun part of this series. So let me know what you think of the next few episodes.
This sounds like my coding practice. I use vim because it’s faster than any IDE I’ve tried, and because I loved ex/vi in college. I use the bang command extensively to run sed commands and auto formatters on blocks of code.
Yeah I used vim primarily up until like 6 weeks ago when I decided to really give cursor a shot. For the first week I really didnt like it because the workflow was so different it felt bad. In the second week of my trial I started grudgingly admitting it might be a bit faster for some types of work. And now six weeks on I really don't think I would ever go back. It took a while to update my workflow and learn to effectively use the LLM (and when to ignore it) but I would say I am probably a reasonable 30% faster with cursor than without, and most of that is to do with the chat session integration rather than the autocomplete which I'm still a little sceptical about tbh. And the thing is these tools are still somewhat in their infancy. They will only get better so I figure I may as well just get used to it now.
The fact that he is a billionaire but still codes is pretty awesome. The mark of a true engineer.
Vim is king.
i agree, i do the same now, its awesome, advanced code editors, complex ides, sometimes unnecessary
That’s so funny. I assumed because he started programming young that he had hours and hours of programming in front of the computer at a young age - but he only had 2 hours of screen time per week. Jaw dropping.
Low sodium Hugh Grant
i code in ubuntu gedit, theres built-in syntax highlighting for many languages and formats, focus more on coding, just write then pass it through formatters and linters.
Based "Just use vim" take, kek
I'm probably way out of touch with modern text editors, but I missed out on when vim became considered a simple one. Kindda wish Mitchell would be using a simple code editor like sam, or something.
What else would you say is a simple code editor for programmers?
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@@WorstPractices i use notepad++ for everything and the other day I got called out a criminal by using it 😂
No idea why...it has minimalistic features I got to actually open docs if I forgot something.
For me it is my best practice which is considered the worst practice by most programmers these days.
Terrible advice lol
Didn’t sound like advice to me. It’s framed as “worst practice”. Seems like a 1x developer habit.
@@tropicaljupiter Oh wow, my reading comprehension must be terrible lol