Looks like a great idea, specially for learning
I know I've seen something like this on hackernews before. SaaS for taking over the IDE at any point of a recording, just without the video.
EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28207662
Seems this but with a slightly different spin?
EDIT2: Gave it a go. Works as intended, so good job on that. The video being a video, makes it a bit awkward though - if I stop the recording and edit some part, I'd want to see the changes live, but for that I guess I'd have to start the server myself? And when I hit play, my changes got deleted anyway (?).
As for the usefulness aspect, personally I am not sure that this has a benefit over e.g. watching youtube tutorials/following books. I watched one of the videos and I'd have to concentrate on the video, the text and audio at the same time, and it wouldn't be me typing the code anyway, so I'm not sure how much I'd remember of it. I'd have to stop, open a new project and try to rewrite it myself to memorize the concepts deeper. But that's just my personal take - might be that there's a big userbase for such interactive learning!
> As for the usefulness aspect, personally I am not sure that this has a benefit over e.g. watching youtube tutorials/following books.
I do like YouTube video tutorials, but only as long as they're short. Watching Handmade Hero (by Casey Muratori) for example was a little frustrating: the videos are long, the codebase is large, things are moving fast, and I'd get lost.
I often wished I could pause the video to look up the definition of a function, or get an overview of when each file/line was edited and jump straight to that point.
Books/blogs are ok for explaining large codebases that already exist, but not for following a project as the code constantly changes. The book Crafting Interpreters did a really good job there, but that's really rare and hard to do.
I think CodeMic could be useful for this kind of long-form tutorials.
I think you mean Scrimba. Yes, it's similar in the sense that in both tools, when you're playing back a recording, you're not looking at the code as a video. But instead the code is there as text. You can pause the recording, look at the files in the project, scroll up and down the editor etc.
The difference is that CodeMic records and replays inside your editor, not on the web. Currently, only VSCode is supported, but the output is independent of VSCode, making it easy to bring it to other editors and even the web.
Another difference is that CodeMic is not focused on web development or any particular stack. It's more general.
Coding session these days is someone typing into Claude Code and waiting. I think this would have been a decent idea a few years ago. Humans typing code into an editor is going to be as rare as debugging assembly.
I made CodeMic for those who love to write code by hand and understand code written by hand. It's my little sanctuary from AI.
You may very well be right about the future. I won't argue. I just love the art of programming :)
This has huge potential as an education tool. People still have to learn how to code. A person who doesn't cannot achieve shippable products even with Claude code.
There are a lot of situations at work where posting a confluence page or a markdown doc on slack doesn't really get any traction, but a mob session does as you can step through things.
Something like this might be a good middle ground (can't interrupt with questions, but can still step through changes). That said, I usually write a script and spin up Loom as the 5 minute limit forces me to keep it tight.
I disagree, and even more so in the future. Programming languages will become a relic of the past. I think LLMs will just create binary from spec/tests/
Why do you think this? I don't see a pathway for a language model to create binaries directly. Is someone working on this?
I mean the code would be intermediate and not really kept around. Code could be any language llm would choose best depending on requirements.
You are living in a fantasy. We are nowhere near this, and engineers who understand fundamentals very well are the ones in demand.
Interesting concept, had never seen something like this. Demo video was short and to the point, well done!
Already waiting on twitch ASMR coders that will use your tool =)
Kudos for actually making it open source.
https://github.com/computing-den/CodeMic
Wishing you luck for this project!
Thank you very much.