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Dave Liddament

DaveLiddament@phpc.social

<p>Interested in code quality, static analysis and testing. Mainly using PHP.</p><p>Conference speaker. Organiser of PHPSW meetup group.</p><p>Open source projects: <br />- Static Analysis Results Baseliner (<a href="https://github.com/DaveLiddament/sarb" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/DaveLiddament/sarb</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>)<br />- PHP Language Extensions: (<a href="https://github.com/DaveLiddament/php-language-extensions" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/DaveLiddament/php-l</span><span class="invisible">anguage-extensions</span></a>)</p>

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    @m1ke @mnapoli it&amp;#39;s only this year I&amp;#39;ve started using Claude. I&amp;#39;m seeing value already. Friday, it found a bug buried in my codebase. I gave it a 2 line prompt. It identified the bug within 4 mins of &amp;#39;thinking&amp;#39;. I&amp;#39;d spent the best part of the day before looking for this bug without success. I&amp;#39;m getting much better at directing it to write code. I spend most of my time in plan mode. It then writes the code and, if I&amp;#39;ve paid attenti...

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    Like many software developers, I fear AI will be taking most of our jobs. So in conjunction with my friend, Louise Blockidge, the best tradesperson I&amp;#39;ve ever met. We&amp;#39;re starting a bootcamp to retrain software developers as plumbers; the pay is great, it won&amp;#39;t get take by AI and when you fix something it stays fixed, unlike every microservice I&amp;#39;ve ever deployed. Find out more: https://www.daveliddament.co.uk/articles/systems-to-cisterns/

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    I&#39;m back from an excellent few days at Confoo, where I gave two talks. One on testing, the other on custom PHPStan rules. It was great to see so many other amazing talks and have lots of interesting hallway chats. And the added bonus of Mount Royal at night. A lovely walk in the snow. And Canada&#39;s best Poutine.