alt Hacker NewsIDEs enable us to not bother memorizing the number and order of arguments, long names beyond the first word or two, etc. the impact is comparable, freeing some of the very limited space in our memory for more important things.
sure, students and juniors shoot themselves in the dick if they let LLMs do everything, but they're fucked anyway so it doesn't matter,
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Tools like Resharper and IntelliSense make me more productive but don't inhibit my thinking, which is what LLMs seem to do.
It's really not.
Number and order of arguments, long names, etc. are just bureaucracy. Knowing them doesn't mean you understand the codebase any better than if you rely on the IDE for it.
It's a bit like remembering the exact date an historical event happened vs. knowing at which point in history it did, what other events relate to it, etc. Neither makes you better or worse at knowing and understanding the history of the event.
Juniors are only in trouble if us seniors stop hiring, training and mentoring. Don’t.
We need to continue the tradition of elevating humans through mentoring or we won’t have a future scaffolding for work to be done.
With AI people aren't reading, writing, or thinking about the code. I would not say something that helps me remember a function name is comparible.