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This article will be extraordinarily helpful to you: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

As someone with programming experience, I would personally recommend starting with Cursor. It has three modes: chat, composer, and agent, for varying degrees of “ask questions about my code” to “do the coding for me” so that you can experiment with different workflows. Since it’s an IDE and can import your settings from VSCode or similar it will also feel integrated/familiar.

hi, Stytch team member here who worked on the PUT request ad from Daniel's post -- feel free to AMA

TL;DR on 'why pay to put a curl request on an ad' is what you all have already said -- (1) unique concentration of tech in SF; and (2) to specifically engage software engineers. More on each...

(1) We wouldn't have run this ad in Sydney, or New York, or LA. SF definitely has an uniquely tech-oriented culture, and in particular has lots of startups in our ideal customer persona (ICP) at Stytch - in this case, engineers building B2B SaaS apps.

But in addition to the people who live in SF, even more software engineers visit the city for conferences, or events, or to fundraise. For example, while our ads are up over the next month, SF will host Stripe Sessions and POSTCon (two entire conferences focused around APIs), plus RSA (security focused).

(2) And although even with that, only a small segment of the pop will understand the ads, those people might be intrigued enough to actually look at them - and our ultimate goal is to get more engineers to look at our code & our docs. Another perk is that engineers can't use ad blockers if the ad is on a bus shelter :)

So that was a bit of the thinking for us - on why SF & why a PUT request on a billboard. We're also making the physical ads into an anchor for a 'marketing moment' for Stytch -- so pair offline ads with digital marketing, as well. So if we're successful, maybe you'll see more on that, soon.

I’ve used Lightcast (prev EMSI) data before to look at skills in demand / job posting trends. you have to request access, but they have a free API and the data was impressively clean in my experience, although it was a few years ago.

They definitely cover Go in Canada (here’s a preview page): https://lightcast.io/open-skills/skills/ESA5839C44D0970CF79F

Less sure on Poland. That would cover demand, and then maybe you could look at average job posting age/time to fill as a proxy for supply and ease of hiring?