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You can get feedback before the compiler kicks in by asking IntelliJ to explicitly define the type.

It’s a trick I used quite a bit when playing about with rust, and Kotlin actually.

Alt + Enter should invoke intentions pop up, you can do it from there. (I think)

> Also sometimes I just let the compiler tell me by forcing the let variable to something that it is obviously not:

Ha! Very clever! Thanks.

This works quite well, until you're dealing with stuff such as `AndThen` with 10 different nested futures. Here, again, async/await will be a great help.