• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    8 days ago

    Try programming for a day without syntax highlighting or auto-completion, and experience how pathetic you feel without them. If you’re like me, you’ll discover that those “assistants” have sapped much of your knowledge by eliminating the need to memorize even embarrassingly simple tasks.

    That’s…how the world works. We move on. We aren’t programming computers by flipping toggle switches or moving patch cables around anymore either.

    ‘Try directly hand-coding bits into regions of memory without a compiler/linker and experience how pathetic you feel without it.’

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      8 days ago

      What a dumb take (in your quote). Autocompletion showing me all the members of an object is nothing like ChatGPT hallucinating members that don’t exist. Autocomplete will show you members you haven’t seen, or aren’t even documented.

      Not to mention they said syntax highlighting is a bad thing… Why use computers at all? Go back to the golden days of punchcards