No! It's a common misunderstanding (imho) that software development is about "writing code" or knowing a programming language's syntax. It never was, it never will be. I experienced this misunderstanding:
I never studied CS or IT or anything related. All my skills are self taught, starting when I was a litle boy. When I was young, I had problems getting into this busines, because HR and recruiters where tasking me with "Write this <x> using this <y>". They wanted to see A grades from 6 years of a master in CS.
Well. I am not that guy that memorizes syntax or coding rules. My approach is very different - and so are many, I assume. And this is what software development is about: You get a problem and you find a way to solve it. At many stations in my professional career I was able to proof that. I "mastered" Pascal from the scratch, on the job. Same goes for VBA, Shell scripting, Python, PHP, JavaScript... you name it.
It may sound arrogant - but then you misunderstood what I am trying to say: The language, the syntax, the coding rules are just "tools" for me. I don't care what I use. I focus on the problem.
Isn't it the same as "Write this <x> using this <y>" you may ask? No. Because this expects a specific solution. Not saying this will not lead to a result. It just a very narrow view on the solution.
There are good software developers that can answer those questions "Write this <x> using this <y>". That's not the point. The point is: There are also great software developers who can't.
With AI you don't have to worry to memorize syntax or rules. You can focus on the problem solving process.
So, AI is changing how software will be created. It make it more efficient. And it changes how HR and recruites hopefully will look at this profession. It's not about A grades in a CS class.
I want to believe. A couple of weeks ago I fell into this "trap", they offered a similar thing. I subscribed to the Pro Plan. Had fun for a couple of weeks and then I entered frustration phase. I love the product, but I hate those up and downs. My rant made it to HN front page - which I am not happy of. I want the stuff I build to be seen on the front page.
I can't believe that domain trading is still a thing.. I am sitting on a bunch of "nice" domains; I could never imagine someone actually bought for not even vor 100 bucks... and here we are, 30k?
I like the clean style, I was working on something similar, but never reached that readines-level.
However, the first screen seems a little contra productive. User entered a paragraph and in return gets a "summary" - but it feels so long. It's probably okay... it just triggered me very first impulse.
And what remains unclear is the meaning of "Team Sync". What's happening there? Is it a "group chat" or does it sends messages?
Speaking of... what about integrations with like Teams, Slack, Discord? I know that Teams offers a Meeting Summary which would be great if you could directly store it in _sig_.
The screenshot feedback is fair. Updating it. The capture response should feel like "filed. here's where." not a report back at you. Working on it.
Team Sync isn't a group chat or a message sender. It's more like an approval step: you review what you've captured privately, decide what's actually worth sharing with your team, and publish that specific text to a shared knowledge base. Right now "publishing" means an abstracted git flow that pushes updates to a central Git repo on Github. Nothing goes to the team without you explicitly choosing it. The name could be clearer — that's useful feedback, thanks.
On integrations: Slack imports work today (you can pull exports into your context). Teams Meeting Summary is an interesting one. Right now you'd paste it in and Sig routes it. The summary gives you the factual scaffolding, then you add your layer on top. That's the part the transcript can't give you.
I am trying Qwen3.5-9B-Claude-4.6 since a couple of days now locally coming from OMLX. Either via Hermes or Continue in VS Code. It's oka'ish, even performance-wise.
No! It's a common misunderstanding (imho) that software development is about "writing code" or knowing a programming language's syntax. It never was, it never will be. I experienced this misunderstanding:
I never studied CS or IT or anything related. All my skills are self taught, starting when I was a litle boy. When I was young, I had problems getting into this busines, because HR and recruiters where tasking me with "Write this <x> using this <y>". They wanted to see A grades from 6 years of a master in CS.
Well. I am not that guy that memorizes syntax or coding rules. My approach is very different - and so are many, I assume. And this is what software development is about: You get a problem and you find a way to solve it. At many stations in my professional career I was able to proof that. I "mastered" Pascal from the scratch, on the job. Same goes for VBA, Shell scripting, Python, PHP, JavaScript... you name it.
It may sound arrogant - but then you misunderstood what I am trying to say: The language, the syntax, the coding rules are just "tools" for me. I don't care what I use. I focus on the problem.
Isn't it the same as "Write this <x> using this <y>" you may ask? No. Because this expects a specific solution. Not saying this will not lead to a result. It just a very narrow view on the solution.
There are good software developers that can answer those questions "Write this <x> using this <y>". That's not the point. The point is: There are also great software developers who can't.
With AI you don't have to worry to memorize syntax or rules. You can focus on the problem solving process.
So, AI is changing how software will be created. It make it more efficient. And it changes how HR and recruites hopefully will look at this profession. It's not about A grades in a CS class.
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