shivbhatia

This is really cool!

Hard to beat the chat interface when it comes to consumer products if you ask me. Pre-AI I often wished I could just talk to an application rather than try to figure out how the buttons the developers had chosen to wire up mapped onto what I was trying to achieve.

I somehow managed to get through over a decade as a programmer before deciding to actually learn how to touch type. I was stuck at about 60 wpm with the wrong fingering, decided to invest in learning the right approach and dropped down to 30 wpm for a while, but eventually ended up at 120 wpm after a year or so. I can't overstate how much it's changed my ability to write software. Not having to think the literal characters I'm entering and instead just watching words and symbols appear on the screen at the speed of thought makes the whole experience significantly more enjoyable. Combined with getting good at the Vim keybindings which I did around the same time, it makes programming feel like a video game. Can't recommend highly enough. I used monkeytype.com for the most part.