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Do you think IDE's, type checking, refactoring tools and autocomplete make developers stupider too? Serious question.

not at all, I think these are valuable tools

would you agree that LLMs make developer stupider?

edit: answer my question

So what about Cursor's tab autocomplete? Seems like there is a spectrum of tooling between raw assembly all the way to vibe coding and I'm trying to see where you draw the line. Is it "if it uses AI, its bad" or are you more against the "hey build me something and I'm not even gonna check the results."

... they are not going to give you a satisfying answer to your totally reasonable line of inquiry.

Looking at the brief history of their account, I don't think anything they are saying or asking is in remotely good faith.

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