Hands-Free Coding (2020)
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Hands-Free Coding (2020)
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#2The demo is incredible. Thinking of adding Talon to my daily workflow simply for the speed improvement. It would be awesome to speak out commands that are slow to type.
And honestly, with the custom python scripts support, this seems like a perfect use case for some GPT enabled programming. Something like "command: gpt add react button component".
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#3It's awesome to realize that lot's of products and services are surrounded by the thought of how can most people, or how can the general public best use it etc. But in reality solving a problem for specific use cases can later on be extended to general purpose products and become a good business.
Lot's of successful companies started of just by someone trying to solve his own, or some colleague/friend/relatives specific problem
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#4The demo is incredible. Thinking of adding Talon to my daily workflow simply for the speed improvement. It would be awesome to speak out commands that are slow to type. And honestly, with the custom python scripts support, this seems like a perfect use case for some GPT enabled programming. Something like "command: gpt add react button component".
I don't want to have to speak out anything, but it could be useful as an option. E.g. the author has an RSI.
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#5Okay, now I want to use voice commands to iteratively code using AI. You'd start out very high level, like, "Write a react component that does X thing." and then you'd modify it more granularly, like "Re-write the last 5 lines so it doesn't use variable X." I could probably do 90% of my coding without typing.
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#6The demo is incredible. Thinking of adding Talon to my daily workflow simply for the speed improvement. It would be awesome to speak out commands that are slow to type. And honestly, with the custom python scripts support, this seems like a perfect use case for some GPT enabled programming. Something like "command: gpt add react button component".
I don't want to have to speak out anything, but it could be useful as an option. E.g. the author has an RSI.
If every developer at least pretends to embrace verbal programming, they'll have to get rid of open floor plans.
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#7The demo is incredible. Thinking of adding Talon to my daily workflow simply for the speed improvement. It would be awesome to speak out commands that are slow to type. And honestly, with the custom python scripts support, this seems like a perfect use case for some GPT enabled programming. Something like "command: gpt add react button component".
The demo looks primitive, "go up second and go left third"? What is this, 2020? When now, in 2023, you can say "add parameters". Programming will only become higher and higher in abstraction. Why even say "parameters", just say "handle this use case".
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#8Relatedly, are there any accessibility tools to reduce eye usage while coding? I frequently get dry eyes and wonder in what other ways I can use them less. I follow the 20 20 20 exercises for eyes; it has been helpful.
I don't want to shut them off completely, but I want to reduce them as much as possible.
e.g. I am actively shutting down my monitor and using screenreaders for any long-form articles.
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#9The demo is incredible. Thinking of adding Talon to my daily workflow simply for the speed improvement. It would be awesome to speak out commands that are slow to type. And honestly, with the custom python scripts support, this seems like a perfect use case for some GPT enabled programming. Something like "command: gpt add react button component".
The demo looks primitive, "go up second and go left third"? What is this, 2020? When now, in 2023, you can say "add parameters". Programming will only become higher and higher in abstraction. Why even say "parameters", just say "handle this use case".
The article is dated 2020 in the title.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The demo looks primitive, "go up second and go left third"? What is this, 2020? When now, in 2023, you can say "add parameters". Programming will only become higher and higher in abstraction. Why even say "parameters", just say "handle this use case".
The article is dated 2020 in the title.
Yes, that was the joke. Only 2-3 years have passed and yet we have advanced so far past that point, a sign of the accelerating things that are yet to come up to full abstraction over the machine interaction: just say what you want to achieve, let the machine handle the details, from what dependencies to use to the file structure of the repository.