Yeah, a couple decades ago I used to think Intellisense was no big deal. I loved Emacs and was happy with Hippie completion:

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HippieExpand

I’ve long since changed my mind and really hate not having great auto-completion.

I find that grabbing pen and paper and looking at the problem from a high-level avoids the problem where you code-monkey the program by just quickly banging away at the keyboard.