Talking just about the title since the contents of the article are about as relevant as a discussion of Java 1 nowadays. No. I had a huge amount of insecurity

Talking just about the title since the contents of the article are about as relevant as a discussion of Java 1 nowadays. No. I had a huge amount of insecurity about this until I tried AoC this year. You know what's really great? Tools, power drills, printers, word processors, chainsaws, indoor toilets, heating. You know what's also great? Not trying to code in notepad with a paper reference manual. There's a weird subculture of developers who get off on playing on hard mode and I can finally see there's no great secret in the suffering, it's just rubbish. Language servers, autocomplete, intellisense, inline documentation, time travel debugging, it's just better. Sure if you enjoy the challenge of coding in Google Docs go for it. But if I want to get work done I'm going to use tools to assist me and I'm no longer going to feel lesser for being productive.