I obviously know what I'm doing, the IDE isn't going to write the code itself. But if I can "write" an 80 character line of code by pressing around 10 keys, I

I obviously know what I'm doing, the IDE isn't going to write the code itself. But if I can "write" an 80 character line of code by pressing around 10 keys, I think that's pretty useful. If I can write a method, a class, faster than I would by manually typing and referring to docs all the time, why wouldn't I? And clearly I'm still getting the work done. I'm complaining about the dissonance of trying to type a method name while the autocomplete dialog wants me to finish the name of a random C macro or an image name. It's frustrating and worth complaining about. Syntax highlighting is useful, the reason it exists is to help you differentiate tokens quickly.