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by qweiopqweiop 146 days ago
It makes sense - juniors are coding faster but not understanding anything. Ironically it'll stop them getting more experienced despite feeling good. What I'm interested in is if the same applies for Senior+ developers. The soft signals are that people are feeling the atrophy but who knows...
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renegade-otter 146 days ago
It requires discipline. I use LLMs for mind-numbing refactoring and things I don't care learning. If you want to learn something, you do it yourself. It's like the gym. No pain, no gain.

I am not saying you should be struggling performatively, like a person still proud in 2026 that they are still using Vim for large projects (good for you, eh), but sometimes you need to embrace the discomfort.

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bayindirh 146 days ago
> like a person still proud in 2026 that they are still using Vim for large projects.

I remember a small competition where people do a well-defined "share this content to others" routine to showcase how OS A is way more intuitive than OS B. There was also an OS C, which was way slower than A&B. Then, someone came using OS C, topped the chart with a sizeable time difference.

The point is, sometimes mastery pays back so much that, while there's theoretically better ways to do something, the time you save from that mastery is enough of a reason to not to leave the tool you're using.

I also have a couple of "odd" tools that I use and love, which would cause confused looks from many people. Yet, I'm fast and happy with them.

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skydhash 146 days ago
> like a person still proud in 2026 that they are still using Vim for large projects

These large projects are amlmost always in Java, C#, and co. Where the verbosity of the language make it required to use an IDE. Otherwise, it would be a struggle to identify which module to import or what prefix and suffix (Manager, Service, Abstract, Factory, DTO,…) to add to the concept name.

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mkehrt 146 days ago
Vim has been having a moment for a while. I have several coworkers who just use it and it seems to work fine for them.
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empath75 146 days ago
I am doing now with AI what I consider more to be engineering management than I am doing software dev, and most technical managers have their coding skills atrophy over time and I don't think that is really a problem.
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