Makes 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.

> 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.