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by aaauaucuggaa 1063 days ago
I got some great advice when I first started coding / CS classes. "Skip Eclipse, use Dr. Java. Skip the intellisense and autocomplete at first so you can really learn". I've kept that mindset for all of my coursework and career. It has probably been the most impactful thing for my career. These AI assistants are the antithesis of this idea. Learn your tools and your codebase deeply, the easy things will be so easy you won't need the AI, the impossible things the AI could never do will be possible.
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I was with you until “skip intellisense and autocomplete”. They save so, so much time.
My thoughts too, it's like shooting yourself in the knee just so you can flex that you had it 'harder' but you managed. Like... what's the point. Being good at software development has nothing to do with knowing every single method of standard library, I have 7 years of experience and I regularly google how to init an array in the language I work in(just as an example).