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by emseetech 628 days ago
I'm of the same mind, AI is a useful rubber duck. A conversation with a brilliant idiot: Can't take what it says at face value but perfect for getting the gears turning.

But after a year of autocomplete/code generation, I chucked that out the window. I switched it to a command (ctrl-;) and hardly ever use it.

Typing is the smallest part of coding but it produces a zen-like state that matures my mental model of what's being built. Skipping it is like weightlifting without stretching.