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When the CTO Asks You to Use Autocomplete
- leakycap 1y agoMakes me wonder about a writer's grasp of the tools available in the last few months when they refer to AI as Autocomplete in the title.
- pwdisswordfishz 1y ago> But I learned something profound. Turning off all these visual aids helped me focus better on the code. I paid attention to what I was writing and kept a mental model of the available functions in my head. At some point, I could even debug errors without looking at the code. Huh, I wonder what kind of superhuman thinking abili— > I was lying in bed when I figured out a solution to [a trivial scope shadowing issue that IntelliJ would have highlighted in seconds]. Sigh.