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		hollowturtle on Nov 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's the Future of IDEs? IMO The amount of data an employer can gather through a remote IDE is way much than pull requests and commits

908B64B197 on Nov 24, 2021 [–]

But how is that data useful?

Dev A writes a lot of small commits and then re-orders them before pushing. Dev B has hours where his environment seems idle and then has a typing spree in between 9PM and 2AM. Dev C knows a lot more than A and B about the debugger.

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