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Turning off autocomplete forced me to actually learn and memorize again, not just libraries, but even my own code. I didn't even notice how bad it had gotten wh
by Barrin92 4y ago
Turning off autocomplete forced me to actually learn and memorize again, not just libraries, but even my own code. I didn't even notice how bad it had gotten when I went from IDE to plain text editing, felt like my brain had atrophied. Like when you hear people say they can't navigate any more without an app.
- throwaway675309 4y agoThat's not really a good comparison, They've done actual tests for London cabbies and found that they had measurable difference in their hippocampus due to the spatial manipulations that they have to do. Whereas the difference between two developers one who remembers the exact parameters for some random arbitrary library and the other who relies on autocomplete is probably negligible. There's a huge difference between rote memorization and fluid intelligence. What's more important is your ability to solve problems and develop new algorithms and you can do that in pseudo code without memorizing a single pointless parameter list.