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Pair Programming?

Can you imagine being told in 2021 that all your coding work would now have to be pair programming?Your company has spare money and hired extra SWEs so they're making pair programming the norm.I think most of us would have flipped.But isn't that what a lot of the AI coding solutions are trying to do?You write a line, it writes a few more, you have to review and adjust it to continue.This isn't...

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AI use cases in software development other than coding

What workflows are you using AI for in your SDLC?Here are a few from Dan Leshem's workshop: 1) Adding context to issues (AI searches codebase for relevant files, searches tech stack for related issues, adds information to technical specs)2) Turn meeting to release. Use AI meeting transcript tool. Have AI summarize and turn into draft technical specifications. Review. Have AI turn into...

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AI Coding Assistant for Swift

Most of the AI coding assistants don't help developers working on iOS projects as they're IDE based but don't integrate with XCode.Fine (fine.dev) gets around this as it's cloud based. It integrates with GitHub and builds a knowledge graph of your code which the LLM uses to fulfil your coding tasks.Although it's more aimed at backend developers, for iOS developers this is probably the most...

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