Climbing Mount Everest in Flip-flops: My journey into PHP as a Python dev
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A Python developer tackled learning PHP to create a printing API by using Cody, an AI coding assistant, to translate concepts and code from their existing Python version. With Cody's help providing instant answers, code scaffolding, autocomplete features, and codebase analysis across 11 files, they completed a fully functional PHP package with documentation and testing in just three days, demonstrating how AI tools can dramatically accelerate learning new programming languages.
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