When you rely on VS Code to:

Auto-complete your code

Format your documents

You’re letting the IDE think for you instead of building a deep understanding of these fundamental operations.

The deep and fundamental operation of typing out the whole function name every time instead of just the first 2 characters+tab

The deep and fundamental operation of manually formatting minified CSS

I say this as someone who writes HTML in Nano: this is a weird kind of purism that they try to handwave several times throughout the article. That’s all it is.

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