[t-writescode]

"I wonder how many new developers will have legit panic attacks if:

  * Slack is down
  * StackOverflow is down
  * their default docs website is down
  * their IDE of choice is being buggy and so they have to use
    something without autocomplete

Life gets harder when assistive tools are lost, no matter what the tool.

[Izkata]

Harder yes for those, but the article is describing something that becomes impossible because there is no fallback, not just harder.

[t-writescode]

Yeah, after I saw what this person was doing, that's .... wow, that's a choice, given the current state of tools. They're far braver than I am.