Wow. This sounds a lot more like grinding than programming. Memorizing APIs? Seriously? What happens when it changes next year? Echoing another commenter, ever

Wow. This sounds a lot more like grinding than programming. Memorizing APIs? Seriously? What happens when it changes next year? Echoing another commenter, every line of code you don't code is coded infinitely-faster, doesn't need testing, and you'll never have to review or maintain it. Programming should be the art of surgically using just the right amount of code in just the right spot to provide lasting value, not filling out forms, wiring interfaces together, or thrashing around online searching for other lost souls. Yes, we all end up doing that kind of work -- but that's a fail, not a win. The more we horse around with our tools, the less we're helping people. Video games took over the world. That is, everything became a video game, with a sexy UI, enthusiastic community, cheat videos (and classes), and outward signs that you've leveled up. This makes sense, I guess, if you're goal is to play the game. And whatever you're doing with computers should definitely be fun. But when interacting with the computer is a tool you're using to provide something to somebody else, the longer you spend with the computer providing that value the less efficient you are. The best code is no code. Somehow this author seems to think that being a great programmer is due to mechanically-interacting with the programming environment. The 10x types faster, remembers more, and has mad skills at the IDE. This would be utterly silly if we were talking about great novelists -- how many words they type per minute, for instance -- but somehow it seems to make sense for coders.