!rant Writing code in a barebones text editor so that I am forced to think more about my code and debug deeper. Hah! No more fancy IDE's while learning (for now)!

Not such a bad idea, actually. I've been going like this for years. Not even autocomplete. I used to be a semi-regular person, but now, now I am addicted to crack cocaine and practice the most tenebrous dark sorcery.

These days languages are designed with a language server in mind. Software design is officially a graph problem and not a typographic problem.

@lorentz this ^

The ability to keep the exact names of all variable and type names in your head is an impressive display of your memory.

But it doesn’t make you a better coder. Coding is about structure and algorithms, not memorization.

@jestdotty we had this conversation a long time ago and my opinion on this hasn’t changed.

I grant you that a good memory will make you faster, but faster doesn’t mean better.
In my view, the question if a coder is good is distinct from the question if a coder is fast.

@jestdotty you know the saying: correlation doesn’t imply causation

Thanks to forced AI in everything, autocomplete is basically broken, so all I use my ide for now is formatting and quick navigation between functions and making git and DB stuff easier.

I was able to successfully find a tricky bug in React using this method, even if it took me 20 minutes.

@Lensflare My idea is not towards memorization, but rather toward finding bugs without the IDE telling me: "hey, here's a syntax error" or "hey, it could be here!".

@cuddlyogre every IDE should allow to disable AI and use the old autocomplete.

If it doesn’t, it’s shit anyway. Switch to another one.

@CaptainRant I get that, I just don’t get why you would want to forgo the benefits of an IDE. Personally I see no value in doing it manually. An IDE is more reliable.

@Lensflare It's not even that AI autocomplete is bad. It's that the traditional autocomplete that used to be great is now always terrible because they want to push you to AI autocomplete that is a coin flip on usefulness. I'm just so sick of everything getting worse.

@cuddlyogre again, you should be able to switch back to traditional autocomplete