[kortex]

> Code should live in your head. You shouldn't need intellisense to see that a property doesn't exist in an object.

That may be well and good for you, but not everyone's brain works like that. My brain is more GPU than CPU: I don't deal well with holding lots of disparate pieces of information in working memory, but I can quickly look at a problem and see many solutions as routes of data through black boxes, and determine what pipes need to plumb to where.

Why should I waste time and neural cycles on code "living" (e.g. interpreting state) in my head, when I have a perfectly good "head" for it right in front of me? Types? Linter? Formatting? That's wasted focus that could be going towards cybernetics, architecture, API ergonomics, and performance.

Before IDEs, I had a tight loop of write code, run it in repl, squash bugs, repeat. Productivity skyrocketed once I started using Spyder/codeblocks, then once again in Pycharm/Clion, and then once again when I started using type hints in python. I just started using TabNine and it's like finally I feel like my code can keep up with my brain.

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