That’s not the only thing that maintaining consistent style involves. For example, we have an auto linter at my job, but there have been a few (bad) engineers w

That’s not the only thing that maintaining consistent style involves. For example, we have an auto linter at my job, but there have been a few (bad) engineers whose code I can recognize even after it’s all auto-formatted. Plus, when you’ve spent enough time with the code in varied environments, you start to internalize what it should look like. Seeing something that doesn’t match the style guide will stand out as looking funny. I don’t think they were suggesting that you need to memorize every minute detail of your prettier config to be a good engineer. Rather, a good engineer has focused on writing clean-looking code so intensely for so long, to know it automatically.