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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by seanmcdirmid on Monday December 23, 2024 @10:45PM (#42499588)
And then you'll turn it back on and feel the lifting of a significant mental burden.

Autocomplete has never been about the speed of typing things, and always about finding and recalling abstractions that you sort of know but haven't committed to strong memory yet.

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Re:Ask HN: Programmers who don't use autocomplete/LSP, how d... by viraptor on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @01:12AM (#42500035)
Or for switching between many languages without having to work on remembering if it's lowercase, lower, tolower, lcase, or to_lower this time.
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