ThatSoftwareDude March 5, 2025 AI Coding Assistants Can Help Prevent Burnout After 20 years of late-night debugging sessions and countless cups of coffee, I've seen developer burnout take many forms. In my latest piece, I share how AI coding assistants could have changed those grueling corporate all-nighters, and why I'm surprisingly optimistic about their role in preventing burnout today. 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So I read all of them. Or skimmed all of them. And the results were in. I needed to know Python, HTML, JavaScript, C++, Rust and SQL. I won't point out the fact that HTML is a markup...","campaignId":17180664,"publicationId":13724783,"metaDescription":null},{"id":7093069,"title":"Weekly Bytes","slug":"weekly-bytes-6","status":"published","readingTime":2,"campaignCompletedAt":"2024-10-31T15:51:57.000Z","publishedAt":"2024-10-31T15:51:57.000Z","orderByDate":"2024-10-31T15:51:57.000Z","timeAgo":"5 months","thumbnailUrl":"https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/nPeCvcFBSCxBexskvwRttf/a4wscvWfPdVaehCuTRPGbS","thumbnailAlt":"","path":"posts/weekly-bytes-6","url":"https://relentless-maker-1837.kit.com/posts/weekly-bytes-6","isPaid":null,"introContent":"> Weekly Bytes Over 25 percent of Google’s code is now written by AI? October 31, 2024 Hello there, If you read that headline and your first instinct was to panic and to start looking into new careers, then I suppose it did its job. Many news outlet's had similar headlines as well alluding to the inevitable demise of the humanoid software engineer. But after looking into it a bit, maybe that isn't warranted, just yet. That particular metric came from Google's CEO himself during Google's Q3...","campaignId":17078745,"publicationId":13622306,"metaDescription":null},{"id":7023745,"title":"Weekly Bytes","slug":"weekly-bytes-5","status":"published","readingTime":3,"campaignCompletedAt":"2024-10-24T16:11:59.000Z","publishedAt":"2024-10-24T16:11:59.000Z","orderByDate":"2024-10-24T16:11:59.000Z","timeAgo":"5 months","thumbnailUrl":"https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/nPeCvcFBSCxBexskvwRttf/jf2StdxUgzJ8fBtsKh5Vt5","thumbnailAlt":"","path":"posts/weekly-bytes-5","url":"https://relentless-maker-1837.kit.com/posts/weekly-bytes-5","isPaid":null,"introContent":"> Weekly Bytes Learning to type faster October 24, 2024 Hello there, Quick story. Years ago, during some kind of stormy weekend, I spent 2 days coding out a \"typing test\" page on my blog in order to see what my WPM was. This is what it is currently. Back then I sat around a 90-100 on average, which I was comfortable with. It's better than my college average of 60-70, but it definitely isn't near the top of any leaderboard where people break 200 before breakfast. 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And yes, it's all related to startups, funding rounds, founding, co-founding and somewhere in the middle, technology. I personally...","campaignId":16912637,"publicationId":13455143,"metaDescription":null},{"id":6879380,"title":"Weekly Bytes","slug":"weekly-bytes-3","status":"published","readingTime":3,"campaignCompletedAt":"2024-10-09T17:24:08.000Z","publishedAt":"2024-10-09T17:24:08.000Z","orderByDate":"2024-10-09T17:24:08.000Z","timeAgo":"6 months","thumbnailUrl":"https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/nPeCvcFBSCxBexskvwRttf/4WQ75dQ2dbdfbVADPdcais","thumbnailAlt":"black and red logitech computer mouse","path":"posts/weekly-bytes-3","url":"https://relentless-maker-1837.kit.com/posts/weekly-bytes-3","isPaid":null,"introContent":"> Weekly Bytes ChatGPT Gets a Programming Canvas? October 9, 2024 Hello there, It seems like every week now A.I. gets some new feature catered towards software developers and this time around, the specific feature added isn't designed to take our jobs. ChatGPT now comes with a programming canvas, and so far, so great. I've been testing it out for the week and so far, outside of a few crashes here and there, it's been a much better way to work with the code within the ChatGPT interface....","campaignId":16755746,"publicationId":13296653,"metaDescription":null},{"id":6811342,"title":"Weekly Bytes","slug":"weekly-bytes-2","status":"published","readingTime":3,"campaignCompletedAt":"2024-10-02T16:47:31.000Z","publishedAt":"2024-10-02T16:47:31.000Z","orderByDate":"2024-10-02T16:47:31.000Z","timeAgo":"6 months","thumbnailUrl":"https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/nPeCvcFBSCxBexskvwRttf/qjszC9bVdasiHCaNoAyMJn","thumbnailAlt":"","path":"posts/weekly-bytes-2","url":"https://relentless-maker-1837.kit.com/posts/weekly-bytes-2","isPaid":null,"introContent":"> Weekly Bytes A.I. Coding Assistants Are Still Confusing October 2, 2024 Hello there, I recently stumbled on 2 articles that painted a clear picture to me that the world is still confused about A.I. and it's potential role as a software engineer replacement. The first article broke down why A.I. coding assistants provide little if any benefit to programmers, particularly in a real-world development setting. The study referenced measured PR cycle time, or the time that it took to merge code...","campaignId":16707191,"publicationId":13247219,"metaDescription":null}],"featuredPost":{"id":8339406,"title":"🤖 AI Coding Assistants Can Help Prevent Burnout","slug":"ai-coding-assistants-can-help-prevent-burnout","status":"published","readingTime":1,"campaignCompletedAt":"2025-03-05T18:00:06.000Z","publishedAt":"2025-03-05T18:00:06.000Z","orderByDate":"2025-03-05T18:00:06.000Z","timeAgo":"about 1 month","thumbnailUrl":"https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/nPeCvcFBSCxBexskvwRttf/pCKfKT1gppup79FkorY5CL","thumbnailAlt":"","path":"posts/ai-coding-assistants-can-help-prevent-burnout","url":"https://relentless-maker-1837.kit.com/posts/ai-coding-assistants-can-help-prevent-burnout","isPaid":null,"introContent":"> ThatSoftwareDude March 5, 2025 AI Coding Assistants Can Help Prevent Burnout After 20 years of late-night debugging sessions and countless cups of coffee, I've seen developer burnout take many forms. 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