> However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time. E.g. if I ran it every 6 months and last year "db" produced "debug", while this year it produces "database". Because talk about messing up my muscle memory and habits. And the language I write changes very much over time.
> However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time.
> And the language I write changes very much over time.
Sounds like exactly you want something that evolves after time, since how you write changes over time.
An universal version would maximize the amount of helpfulness on an average for everyone, but a tool that learns from your individual actions, can be much better improvement for you. And by making the tool available to everyone, more people could get bigger benefits from it, rather than just "average" benefits.
> Sounds like exactly you want something that evolves after time, since how you write changes over time.
No, because I don't want the shortcuts to be changing on me. That would drive me nuts. The whole point for me would be to establish new habits and then keep them. To turn into muscle memory, not something to be thinking about.
It's like toolbars that "learn" which actions you're currently using the most, but the buttons are constantly moving around and are never where they were last week. It's an exercise in frustration.
> However, I realize that I would never want to use something like this that would change over time.
> And the language I write changes very much over time.
Sounds like exactly you want something that evolves after time, since how you write changes over time.
An universal version would maximize the amount of helpfulness on an average for everyone, but a tool that learns from your individual actions, can be much better improvement for you. And by making the tool available to everyone, more people could get bigger benefits from it, rather than just "average" benefits.