> Sturdy live-streams everyone's code, so that you can give and take instant feedback.
For those who thought pair programming wasn't invasive enough?
I'm sure there are people and teams for whom this will work. But it sounds like a nightmare to me. Especially when learning something new, working through a tough problem, or simply having an off day, the last thing I want is to know my team is looking over my shoulder at everything I am doing.
Thanks for this feedback (Co-founder here)! As somebody who generally codes better without people “looking over my shoulder” and having used our own tool for 9 months I’d say it feels very different from that.
Our goal is to normalize sharing of code that looks draft-y, before any emotions have been invested in the work. We want to change the entire vibe of working together on code. Instead of feeling like submitting homework (Pull Requests), we go for a Figma/Google Docs style of working together. You could sketch on something in a corner (we call them workspaces) and only seek feedback if/when it makes sense.
When coding doesn’t feel like homework, figuring stuff also feels less intimidating IMO. For example yesterday I was making a function more testable by injecting a function as an argument. Gustav spotted that and he knew that there was an interface that could be injected instead. With one operation he got a copy of my code and typed an alternative on his computer. That code shows up as suggestions for me that I could take with one click.
For those who thought pair programming wasn't invasive enough?
I'm sure there are people and teams for whom this will work. But it sounds like a nightmare to me. Especially when learning something new, working through a tough problem, or simply having an off day, the last thing I want is to know my team is looking over my shoulder at everything I am doing.