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The very best chess teams consist of a computers and a humans cooperating with each. The computer insures perfect tactically play while the human concentrates on overall strategy.

Except, we're using computers to help assist us with a terrible codebase that is unnecessary complex and verbose.

Why should programming be any different? The very best IDEs in the hands of a skilled programmer should produce code better than a similarly skilled programmer who insists on using a dumb text editor. If the resulting code can only effectively be modified by a similar computer/human team - well that's a small price to pay.

Vim and emacs not "dumb text editors". They are very powerful tools in the hand of a skilled programmer.