John Whiles is a person from England. This website contains their blog, music, and other things. Hopefully it will one day be the sort of website that people will look at and say, “They used to make good websites back in the day. What happened?”
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Metr recently published a paper about the impact AI tools have on open-source developer productivity[^1]. They show that when open source developers working in codebases that they are deeply familiar with use AI tools to complete a task, then they take longer to complete that task compared to other tasks where they…
Even though I don't respect podcasts as an information delivery system, I recently listened to a podcast that felt like having an epiphany.