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Re:Show HN: Kasama – an IntelliJ plugin to keep track of you... by Ragnarork on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @12:47PM (#41986369)
> How actionable will these insights be?

I mean, that's something you should try to answer yourself, if you think you can extract any benefit from having these stats.

To me it's similar to a fitness app that can tell you things like time, speed, distance, elevation, but won't really tell you how to run better.

I have a hard time coming up with ways this could help my coding habits right away, but I think this would be on the user to find these, not the stats reporting tool, no? And if you find no real use, then it's maybe just not for you.

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Re:Show HN: Kasama – an IntelliJ plugin to keep track of you... by The_Colonel on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @02:14AM (#41992291)
> To me it's similar to a fitness app that can tell you things like time, speed, distance, elevation, but won't really tell you how to run better.

Most of these stats are very simple to interpret - higher speed/distance - you're getting better.

My fear is that people will apply such simplistic evaluation on these stats as well - "your daily commit rate has been going down lately, we need to focus on that".

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