Are developers becoming utterly bone idle, or brilliantly efficient? Windsurf just dropped a browser *inside* their IDE, sparking a heated debate about efficiency, ergonomics, and why we're still lifting our arms for a mouse. Is this the future of coding, or just another quirky feature? Get ready to rethink your workflow and protect those precious wrists!
Are developers becoming utterly bone idle, or brilliantly efficient? Windsurf just dropped a browser *inside* their IDE, sparking a heated debate about efficiency, ergonomics, and why we're still lifting our arms for a mouse. Is this the future of coding, or just another quirky feature? Get ready to rethink your workflow and protect those precious wrists!
Are developers becoming too lazy? Windsurf just dropped a browser *inside* their IDE, sparking a heated debate about efficiency, ergonomics, and why we're all still lifting our arms to use a mouse. Is this the future of coding, or just another niche feature? Get ready to rethink your workflow!
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Transcript
Scientists get on this because I'm tired of lifting up my arm. Windsurf just released a browser so you can literally browse the internet inside of Windsurf. As a developer, it's great that I don't need to leave my IDE and I can just get my information all from in here because that's why chat GBT got so big because it's such a it's just a normal way to uh to interface with the internet with data. Yeah, but like don't you open your cursor with a browser anyway? like why do you need a browser there? It's efficiency. It's just it's just marginal gains of efficiency. And actually, this is something I want to figure out. Mouse and keyboard, right? Very very natural. I hate jumping from mouse to keyboard to mouse to keyboard. Sometimes even just to press a shortcut then go back to my mouse. I like literally just want to stay in the one place. Lenovo made that little red nub. Remember that little red nub in the middle? I think that might need to make a comeback because like I just I hate moving over to my mouse and back and forward and back and forth. It drives me nuts. Scientists get on this cuz I'm tired of lifting up my arm. Two things. One, I use my thumb to use my cursor. Not for like big stuff, but if I need to just make a small change, I just use my thumb. So my hands are on the keyboard and then my thumb is on the trackpad. I believe that a trackpad makes you more efficient than you know a mouse. The second thing is it's not really healthy to not move. So it's really good for you to change like whatever that you do like whatever position however you like it. It's important to change it. Uh if you've heard of carpal tunnel I I I believe it's called. It happens because your fingers stay in this for example position or like when you type in this position for long. It happens to piano players as well. This happens when you don't stretch your fingers like you need to not just like completely stretch it but also like backwards. Try to do like this type of movements. So this won't happen because it happened to me and it's going to be very painful. So you got to be careful. Move as much as you can. This is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web.
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