434: Coding Gungan Style
6 October 2021
It's final push time on a big project for Mike, but Chris is the one who is exhausted. But we've got some new insights into testing and thoughts on an emerging category of developer.
Episode Links
- Hermit programmers are dead — However, with the advent of cloud computing and AI, the scenery may change soon for this profession. It’s time for programmers to mutate into sociable software engineers, recap and re-adapt, and take advantage of the only thing that machines cannot overtake: our human nature. Otherwise, I believe misfit programmers will perish… for sure.
- Why OpenAI’s Codex Won’t Replace Coders — It might create a new specialty, too: “prompt engineering,” the often-complex process of crafting the textual prompts which allow AI systems like Codex to work their magic.
- Majority of developers spending half, or less, of their day coding, report finds — If you only get four hours max to code during the work day you’re not alone, according to ActiveState’s 2019 developer survey.
- Coverage Is Not Strongly Correlated with Test Suite Effectiveness · It Will Never Work in Theory — We found that code coverage is a poor predictor of how effective a test suite is at detecting bugs once the size of the test suite is accounted for.
- Internal Tech Emails on Twitter — Apple execs describe a “unique arrangement” with Netflix
- Python Sample for Tip of the Week — This is an example of being able to use type hinting on a return < Python 3.10. In 3.10 the from future will not be required. This requires Python 3.6+
- What’s New In Python 3.10
- Python 3.10 Release Stream — with Pablo Galindo - YouTube — Python 3.10 is set to be released on 4 October 2021. Join us live in our Python 3.10 Release Stream with Pablo Galindo, CPython Core Developer and Python 3.10 Release Manager, and Leon Sandøy.