I developed a big chunk of my Scumm games decompiler in London's central line. I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to go far enough each day to always hand an empty seat and enjoy 30 minutes of me time each way.
All on a Chromebook with crostini. Cheap, long battery life and decent keyboard.
roryirvine 12/22/2025|
My experience of the central line couldn't have been more different - commuting between Bethnal Green and Holborn, often having to wait 20-25 mins on the platform, letting a dozen trains go by before finally managing to squeeze on, followed by 9 minutes crouching under someone's armpit.
No chance of reading my phone or Kindle, let alone using a laptop!
aj7 12/22/2025||
I did my calculus homework on the subway.
vermooten 12/22/2025||
Sounds like a 1-way ticket to burnout.
venturecruelty 12/21/2025||
This is how transplants get mugged, but okay. Why not just enjoy your hour of zen instead of constantly working?
65 12/21/2025||
Eh. My preferred subway activity is to listen to music and stare at the ground. I don't know... do I really need to stare at my computer screen every waking moment?
nrhrjrjrjtntbt 12/22/2025||
How dare a human be unproductive for 4% of a day.
szundi 12/22/2025||
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chrischen 12/21/2025|
With coding agents AI almost never manually type code anymore. It would be great to have a code editor that runs on my phone so I can do voice prompts and let the coding agents type stuff for me.
lbrito 12/21/2025||
That sounds awful
xnx 12/21/2025|||
Similar to a product or engineering manager giving directions on a call from the golf course.
lbrito 12/21/2025|||
Golf course isn't bad; I witnessed a CEO join meetings from the subway and packed airport concourses lol
Spooky23 12/21/2025|||
Early in my career I drew the short straw to fetch a C level exec who was running a critical incident from a strip club and too drunk to drive.
I had to pay the $90 three drink minimum to get in. Getting that reimbursed was fun.
trinix912 12/21/2025|||
But hey, look how productive they are with their time! :)
venturecruelty 12/22/2025|||
Funny enough, that sounds awful, too.
chrischen 12/29/2025|||
To be fair with the languages I use there are only a finite number of ways a particular line or even function can be implemented due to high level algebraic data structures and strict type checking. Business logic is encoded as data requirements, which is encoded into types, which is enforced by the type checker. Even a non-AI based system can technically be made to fill in the code, but AI system allows this to sort of be generalized across many languages that did not implement auto-complete.
llbbdd 12/21/2025|||
I have been doing this with GitHub's copilot agent web interface on my phone; word-vomit voice prompt + instructions to always run the tests or take screenshots so I can evaluate the change works really well.
chrischen 12/29/2025||
Was it the github issues copilot integration? I found that to be slow compared to natively running copilot in the IDE.
breckenedge 12/21/2025|||
Claude does this, at least on an iPhone. They added Code to the app about a month ago. I used it to get a Pebble Watch project started.