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# A Practical Framework for Evaluating Developer Trends

Use this document as a personal playbook or give it to an AI assistant as the instructions for evaluating a developer trend. Replace every value in `<angle brackets>` before beginning.

The goal is not to predict which idea will become popular. The goal is to decide whether **you** should spend scarce career time on it, based on evidence that becomes available over three horizons:

| Horizon | Time | Primary question | Best evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Short term | First 1–2 weeks | Is it real and useful now? | Hands-on experience and technical taste |
| Medium term | Weeks 3–8 | Is there independent depth behind the excitement? | Repeated use, developer reactions, technical content, and product activity |

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// Code for Twilio Functions (https://www.twilio.com/functions) that builds an automated speech recognition IT support desk.
			    
// Read the companion blog post (https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/07/building-the-it-crowd-answering-machine-using-twilio-functions.html) for full explanations.

/**************** Version 1 ******************/
exports.handler = function(context, event, callback) {
  let twiml = new Twilio.twiml.VoiceResponse();
  twiml.say({ voice: 'man', language: 'en-gb' }, 'Welcome to the IT support hotline. Sorry, we are currently closed. We don not have any open hours.');
  callback(null, twiml);
};

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import base64
import json
import os
import urllib
from urllib import request, parse


TWILIO_SMS_URL = "https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/{}/Messages.json"

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import bottle
from bottle import route, run, Response
 
 
app = bottle.default_app()
 
 
@route('/')
def index():
    """Returns standard text response to show app is working."""

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from bottle import (post, request, response, route, run, )
from twilio import twiml


@route('/')
def check_app():
    # returns a simple string stating the app is working
    return "It works!"

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from flask import Flask, Response, request
from twilio import twiml


app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route("/")
def check_app():
    # returns a simple string stating the app is working

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Response>
  <Message>Thanks for your text message!</Message>
</Response>

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from os import environ
from fabric.api import *
from fabric.context_managers import cd
from fabric.contrib.files import sed

"""
    Fabric file to upload public/private keys to remote servers
    and set up non-root users. Also prevents SSH-ing in with the
    root user. Fill in the following blank fields then run this
    Fabric script with "fab bootstrap_ansible".