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Dave Liddament

@DaveLiddament@phpc.social

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Interested in code quality, static analysis and testing. Mainly using PHP.

Conference speaker. Organiser of PHPSW meetup group.

Open source projects:
- Static Analysis Results Baseliner (https://github.com/DaveLiddament/sarb)
- PHP Language Extensions: (https://github.com/DaveLiddament/php-language-extensions)

141 Followers

146 Following

6 Posts

Joined November 04, 2022

Website:

https://www.daveliddament.co.uk/

Dave Liddament @DaveLiddament@phpc.social

· 6mo ago

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've ever met. We're starting a bootcamp to retrain software developers as plumbers; the pay is great, it won't get take by AI and when you fix something it stays fixed, unlike every microservice I've ever deployed.
Find out more: https://www.daveliddament.co.uk/articles/systems-to-cisterns/

Dave Liddament

Systems Engineer to Cisterns Engineer

The bootcamp for software engineers who want to switch to plumbing.

Dave Liddament @DaveLiddament@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

I'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's best Poutine.

Dave Liddament @DaveLiddament@phpc.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@shochdoerfer good to see you too. Catch you at UnKonf, if not before.

Dave Liddament @DaveLiddament@phpc.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@dantleech Hope you had a good Christmas. Thanks for watching. I'll definitely take look at --onto. See you at PHP-UK in Feb if not before.

Dave Liddament @DaveLiddament@phpc.social

· 9mo ago

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@m1ke I know! I'm impressed people worked out this was a thing you could do.

Dave Liddament @DaveLiddament@phpc.social

· 8mo ago

@m1ke@phpc.social @mnapoli@phpc.social it's only this year I've started using Claude. I'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 'thinking'. I'd spent the best part of the day before looking for this bug without success.

I'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've paid attention in planning, the generated code needs very few changes.