Respectfully, no. IDEs made it easier to navigate a huge codebase with things like autocomplete and one-click refactor. This made it easier to make huge codeba

Respectfully, no. IDEs made it easier to navigate a huge codebase with things like autocomplete and one-click refactor. This made it easier to make huge codebases that _require_ these QoL add-ons over time. I think this was a factor that made outsourcing software development (to countries with weak or non-existent worker rights) possible at scale. In a similar vein, highly paid software engineers are using LLMs to generate more and more of the code they ship. If highly paid SWEs can write code by shoveling a sentence into Copilot, _literally anyone can._ We seem hellbent on destroying our profession for the sake of "productivity" (i.e. using less of our brainpower to churn our features faster). But what do I know? I'm just a simpleton that uses vim and writes code the old-fashioned way.