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The year is 2022, I am learning a new javascript framework. GitHub copilot is helping out with ghost code completion. I had been using it for only a few weeks and already I don’t like it. It was good at completing the code but I felt that I was not as active in the process as I was before. I would periodically switch it off to make sure I could still function without it. I found myself typing function names and pausing waiting instinctively for the ghost code. Later I would see various twitter users complaining of the same issues that the GitHub copilot was making them in their words “dumber”. ...

My first encounter with quantified-self tracking was via wakatime in 2020, a website for tracking coding stats(time, language, projects…). I was mostly drawn to the idea of a coding leaderboard, ranking programmers on hours programmed. I now had a definitive score of my “productivity”. The data collected told an interesting story, insights into my habits that were not apparent until analyzed. For one my most productive weekday was more often than not Wednesday. I instinctively thought it was linked my schedule somehow. I had more free time on Wednesday? Turns out this a trend experienced by more developers than they realize (according to Reddit and digging around online). ...