I'm using 4 and I still am constantly having to babysit it and challenge it to get a working result out of it. Don't get me wrong it is absolutely saving me time, but it is very much like being the teacher of a very fast typing junior dev.
Honestly I try to avoid thinking about it. Naive for sure, but as soon as I do I realize it's a matter of time or horsepower before what I do is either shifted massively, or taken away from me entirely. It's incredibly emotionally overwhelming and I'm not sure how to handle it. And it's not just about losing my job, I fear losing the gratification and validation that I get from solving something with code, from wrangling two bits of software together, getting it to click and knowing I made the sand think the right way. And not that I can't still do that without being paid for it, but I feel in the future there will be no material benefit to doing it "by hand" and therefore my love for it will be lost.
for context, I am young and a recent junior dev after a struggle through failing school, self teaching, and finally landing what I thought would carry me through retirement
In your opinion what advantages does Ditto have over win+V? I've only used Ditto very briefly but didn't immediately notice anything too wildly different from the built-in implementation.
- Configure hot keys to bring up the clipboard selector (I use CTRL + Alt + V)
- Quickly select a clipboard item via hot key, arrow keys or mouse
- Search through the list of clipboard items immediately
- Configure how many items get saved and when they expire
- Ability to paste in plain-text as a separate hot key
Ditto hits all of those marks. Overall it feels like it was built by a person who actively uses it.
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