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Post by seansh »

With CodeMic you can record and share coding sessions directly inside your editor.

Think Asciinema, but for full coding sessions with audio, video, and images.

While replaying a session, you can pause at any point, explore the code in your own editor, modify it, and even run it. This makes following tutorials and understanding real codebases much more practical than watching a video.

Local first, and open source.

p.s. I’ve been working on this for a little over two years and would love to hear your thoughts.

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Post by Bishonen88 »

I know I've seen something like this on hackernews before. SaaS for taking over the IDE at any point of a recording, just without the video.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207662

Seems this but with a slightly different spin?

EDIT2: Gave it a go. Works as intended, so good job on that. The video being a video, makes it a bit awkward though - if I stop the recording and edit some part, I'd want to see the changes live, but for that I guess I'd have to start the server myself? And when I hit play, my changes got deleted anyway (?).

As for the usefulness aspect, personally I am not sure that this has a benefit over e.g. watching youtube tutorials/following books. I watched one of the videos and I'd have to concentrate on the video, the text and audio at the same time, and it wouldn't be me typing the code anyway, so I'm not sure how much I'd remember of it. I'd have to stop, open a new project and try to rewrite it myself to memorize the concepts deeper. But that's just my personal take - might be that there's a big userbase for such interactive learning!

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Post by small_model »

Coding session these days is someone typing into Claude Code and waiting. I think this would have been a decent idea a few years ago. Humans typing code into an editor is going to be as rare as debugging assembly.

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Post by newswasboring »

small_model wrote: post #4

Coding session these days is someone typing into Claude Code and waiting. I think this would have been a decent idea a few years ago. Humans typing code into an editor is going to be as rare as debugging assembly.

This has huge potential as an education tool. People still have to learn how to code. A person who doesn't cannot achieve shippable products even with Claude code.

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Post by small_model »

newswasboring wrote: post #6
small_model wrote: post #4

Coding session these days is someone typing into Claude Code and waiting. I think this would have been a decent idea a few years ago. Humans typing code into an editor is going to be as rare as debugging assembly.

This has huge potential as an education tool. People still have to learn how to code. A person who doesn't cannot achieve shippable products even with Claude code.

I disagree, and even more so in the future. Programming languages will become a relic of the past. I think LLMs will just create binary from spec/tests/

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Post by newswasboring »

small_model wrote: post #7
newswasboring wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This has huge potential as an education tool. People still have to learn how to code. A person who doesn't cannot achieve shippable products even with Claude code.

I disagree, and even more so in the future. Programming languages will become a relic of the past. I think LLMs will just create binary from spec/tests/

Why do you think this? I don't see a pathway for a language model to create binaries directly. Is someone working on this?

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Post by small_model »

newswasboring wrote: post #9
small_model wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree, and even more so in the future. Programming languages will become a relic of the past. I think LLMs will just create binary from spec/tests/

Why do you think this? I don't see a pathway for a language model to create binaries directly. Is someone working on this?

I mean the code would be intermediate and not really kept around. Code could be any language llm would choose best depending on requirements.
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