[jaredcwhite]

There's a lot here I resonate with. Ironically, I'm sort of headed in the opposite direction—I've been spending more effort experimenting with and working with tooling in VSCode to add autocomplete/docs/type hints/etc. for Ruby projects. My background is essentially IDE-free…for years I programmed Ruby and JavaScript using nothing but BBCode!

I definitely think there's a sweet spot somewhere in the middle here, and industry trends are likely headed too far into IDE-plus-AI-all-the-things! territory. Over time, I think we'll come to understand the tradeoffs better.