2 years ago

On Sept. 28, nearly 5,000 online attendees from 83 countries tuned in for Stack Overflow’s site’s https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/10/07/missed-our-flow-state-conference-catch-up-on-all-the-sessions/ (webcasting from New York). he also discussed remote (and hybrid) workplaces, the industry’s response to representation issues, and even an expansive class of “code-adjacent” part-time developers. But mostly, Thompson offered a fun and lively summation of what he’d learned after talking to programmers around the world… Looking ahead, Thompson sees a world with “a sea of people who are code-adjacent — just below people that are full-time developers…

And Thompson admits that after experimenting with Copilot, he concluded that it was “shockingly good at letting you develop really quickly.