TDD with Copilot, lump of labor fallacy, and more
Digest for the week of May 12th.
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The guide on Test-Driven Development with Copilot on GitHub’s The ReadME Project is the biggest piece of the week, with a step-by-step walkthrough building a library driven by tests and heavily relying on Copilot’s code suggestion.
Two more posts on AI and the future of work. Don’t fall for the lump of labor fallacy points out that every time time a job gets automated, people find new ways to invest the freed up time and resources to create new ones. Swift did not disrupt the iOS job market, and neither will AI compares failed prophecies from back in 2014 with those we’re hearing today.
Knowledge is networked reflects on how knowledge is as much about gathering information as it is about finding connections among it and, as a matter of fact, the edges are more valuable than the nodes. Finally, Own your clarity is an invitation to take a proactive approach to the way you communicate.
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How to accelerate software development with AI
We’ve been chatting a lot about AI here recently. I tried to argue against prophecies of AI apocalypse without disregarding concrete issues such as model bias or LLMs ability to generate plausible-sounding lies. AI could enable new generations of builders
Don’t fall for the lump of labor fallacy
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Swift did not disrupt the iOS job market, and neither will AI
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Knowledge is networked
In his 2011 book What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly explains how knowledge is as much about gathering facts as it is about finding good explanations to link them. Each epistemic invention expands the web of verifiable facts and links one bit of knowledge to another. Knowledge is thus a network phenomenon, with each fact a node. We say knowledge increases…
Own your clarity
Personal development author Steve Pavlina advocates for assuming 100% responsibility for your level of clarity. How clear you are in your intentions, or lack thereof, should not depend on other people, religion, or the structures of society. “Clarity,” Pavlina argues, “is what you create for yourself.” Don’t let someone else decide what matters to you, …