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Comment by punnerud | Hacker News Reader

This would be great for blind people, or you could program while biking.

As a blind programmer I'm trying to understand how I should find this more useful than anyone else?

I think what they're saying is, you can quickly understand the contents of a file by having it summarized for you audibly. Versus having each token read out to you. Then you can locate the part that you're trying to program faster.

Not sure what that has to do with being blind except the audio part, and we already have text to speech systems to read the actual code

Programming while biking with ai is like relying on a really buggy early stage auto-drive ai system to take you places down winding, slippery roads while you sleep at the wheel. It might get you there most of the time, but I’d might bend you around a tree too

If you're a blind programmer, would you rather listen to a summary of each function in a source file or listen to every token on 10x speed and figure it out yourself? I believe that is the point that they are making. Not sure about the programming while biking though, I typically need to concentrate on one task at a time (which is what most multitasking is realistically, just quickly switching between one task at a time).

Again, what does this have to do with being blind? Whether you can see or not, summaries are nice to have; and whether you can see or not, you still need to read the code in case the summary isn’t accurate, as it typically isn’t

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