Thanks a lot! I have thought about it being useful for learning, for fun, as a new kind of documentation, or even for onboarding new hires but the use case for code review didn't occur to me. That's great. I can think of 3 ways to share sessions:
- attach a link as you said
- once the web player is ready, it could perhaps be integrated into the code review tool. It'll be like embedding a youtube video
- the entire recorded session can be exported as a zip file and attached to the PR or shared privately
is a community that has only been around for a year but has grown very well. That's why I thought you should bring everyone up to speed on the subject.
I couldn't agree more. For example, the more senior developers could record walkthroughs of the codebase for new hires. It gives them a quick, high-level overview of the system and can make onboarding easier and let the new team members study the material at their own pace with a guide.
Great question. It's not really about whether it's written or spoken (a later version of CodeMic will have written guides as well as audio/video/image).
It's about the guide happening inside your IDE next to your code. When the guide talks about a specific part of the code, it should be shown right there next to it. Not a small snippet of the code but the code in its proper context where you can use your IDE to dig deeper into it, see the relevant docs, change it, run it, experiment with it.
With CodeMic, the guide is synced to the code inside the IDE. It's really a different experience.
That would be very interesting. But for now it's a little out of scope. I think the key feature here is a tool and a platform for developers to record and replay coding sessions in a much more interactive way than what we currently have on Twitch or YouTube.
In the future, we could add live record & replay which would pave the ground for pair programming as well.
Thank you. Yeah as much as I like to watch coding on Twitch/YouTube I always get lost 30 minutes in and can't tell what I'm looking at. I really hope CodeMic will change that.
Yep. And educational videos almost always skip over useful information, or don't explore something I'm interested in, or...
Self-directed learning is the best learning. Consider me sold, it's a pretty simple mashup in principle but it's immediately clear why it would work well (both implementation and as a user).
Yes the Doom gameplay was narrated. It was showing how the changes to the code affected the gameplay.
The main idea is to create narrated guides through the code. It can be audio only or mixed with video and images.
CodeMic basically records changes made to the code (as well as scroll, selections etc). It doesn't really care if the changes are made by the developer or the AI assistant. I think it would be the job of the narrator to explain why the files suddenly changed.
I'm excited to see what kind of content developers will create on CodeMic but personally, my inspiration is 3Blue1Brown. That is to say, not so much live recording of a 3 hour long programming session but instead shorter, more polished and well planned content. I suppose time will tell which will be more popular.
Thank you, that makes more sense now. Wasn't super clear from the intro video. I hope there will be enough people who need this kind of tool for their team/community!
Even with audio/video, it's still useful to have a side pane to show some text, slides, and visual aids all synced to the timeline. I was thinking something like the markdown preview in a split screen. Also, I'm sure some prefer to write than talk so once that feature is in place, we can have any mix of audio, video, or markdown guides.
- attach a link as you said
- once the web player is ready, it could perhaps be integrated into the code review tool. It'll be like embedding a youtube video
- the entire recorded session can be exported as a zip file and attached to the PR or shared privately