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458: Learning Typescript with Aji Slater
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:42:31
Publish Date: 2025-04-08 07:00:00
Description:

Joël and fellow thoughtboter Aji Slater examine the unfamiliar world of Typescript and various ways of working within it’s system.

They lay out the pros and cons of Typescript over other environments such as Ruby and Elm and discuss their experience of adopting LLM partners to assist in their workflows. Utilising Chat GPT and Claude to verify code and trim down syntax, all while trying to appease the type checker.

Discover the little tips, tricks and bad habits they picked up along the way while working with their LLM buddies in an effort to improve efficiency.

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Your host for this episode has been Joël Quenneville.

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