> The use of IDE can make you know less about project at hand i disagree. Someone who's not interested in the project might know less (but is still able to ac

> The use of IDE can make you know less about project at hand i disagree. Someone who's not interested in the project might know less (but is still able to accomplish their task), where as without such an IDE, they will have to learn a lot first. It's one reason why beginner java courses at university asks you not to use an IDE (at least for the first few tutorials learning the basics). But this isn't the fault of the IDE at all, and simply just reflect the motivations of the person using it. An IDE makes someone motivated to learn be more capable. It's a multiplier/enabler. > less of a thinking person. no, it makes you think less unimportant stuff, and thus have more to dedicate to the important stuff. Effortless navigation in an IDE (like intellij) means you can move through the call graph of an application without having to see/understand the entire application completely. The same can be said for LLMs - may be not today's, since it's still early, but at some point these LLM tools will make trivial/unimportant things easy, leaving time for you to focus on the things the LLM can't do.