I haven't independently verified all the claims in the article, but as a codex, Claude, and opencode user, opencode is easily my favorite harness. From a user perspective it's a dream
I'm the founder of Boot.dev and I was doing my regular "what's going on in my industry" research - searching through Google trends, and was baffled by this.
I'm not sure what on earth is driving the sudden spike in Python learning resource searching
Yeah I think there's some nuance. As a relatively experienced dev I still use autocomplete when using a new language, but I think it's different when you already have a strong grasp of coding fundamentals. Learning your 3rd or fourth language when you already understand the constructs is much different than baby's first for loop
one thing to keep in mind is the video you linked is the _walkthrough_ of the course, the actual course itself is probably what you're looking for, because it moves at a much more reasonable pace
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I've had the chance to interact with both Preston and Clyde (Preston helped Clyde get going in code as well) - Clyde actually completed like all the backend courses on boot dev and is doing great at unlocked labs.
anyhow, thanks for all you did to help Clyde Preston!!! and thanks to glauber and turso for giving Preston a chance, he's such a a cool guy with such a cool story
I've published a lot of interactive programming courses on Boot.dev over the last few years, but the issue that's been plaguing the platform is how quickly it moves through material.
Like we give people challenges for each new concept, but we don't give them 4 or 5 challenges for each new concept. It's hard to get right because
1. It's a lot of work to make challenges/review material
2. Every student wants a different amount of practice/review
So anyways I think we've got a really good solution in the works, been cooking on it this week and we're hoping to be ready to go live in August
Lane here, I wa so excited that I got to record with Ben, his and Shiva's 2020ish videos hit me soooo hard when they dropped. I think Krazam is pretty popular around here so figured I'd share.
It has boring well written docs. in fact very boring, and very well written. the video is a banger though, I have no idea why you'd want less creativity in an otherwise boring space
Hmmm... only the things that are really in our control. For example, I think adding time-on-lesson as another metric for the difficulty calculation will make certain courses and projects jump up quite a bit.
I also think that prompt versioning will give us some interesting stuff to look at next year - and of course encouraging more up/down votes on the AI assistant
I guess I will say that if Boot dev keeps growing at this rate, I expect vim mode usage to go down a bit, just because I'd expect the growth to come more from beginners than what we've had in the past
I was expecting <2% - I'll be interested to see if this goes up or down over time... I imagine it's fairly dependent on whether the platform sees growth with more experienced vs less experienced devs