being medium-grade conversant in regular expressions is right up there, too. You might not need to do lookaheads, but if you can write a regex search in vscode

being medium-grade conversant in regular expressions is right up there, too. You might not need to do lookaheads, but if you can write a regex search in vscode that finds and replaces something across a hundred files correctly, you've just saved yourself a ton of tedious manual labor.