Why I Stopped Using nbdev
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Programmers love to proclaim they’ve found the best tool. Paul Graham called Lisp his “ secret weapon .” DHH described Ruby as “ a magical glove that just fit my brain perfectly .” Pieter Levels ships million-dollar products with vanilla PHP and jQuery . These declarations aren’t about the languages themselves. They’re about developers finding tools that fit how they think. When the environment clicks, you move fast. I had that experience with nbdev , a development environment for literate progr
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A concrete case study of how AI coding tools invert old tooling tradeoffs — worth reading before committing to any unconventional development workflow.
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