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I think we need to abandon this idea of writing code like a scribe copying a book. There’s a plethora of tools ready to help you take advantage of the facts

- that the code itself is an interlinked structure (LSPs and code navigation),

- that the syntax is simple and repetitive (snippets and generators),

- that you are using a very limited set of symbols (grep, find and replace, contextual docs, completion)

- and that files are a tools for organization (emacs and vim buffers, split layout in other editors)

Your editor should be a canvas for your thinking, not an assembly line workspace where you only type code out.



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