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> A lot of the value added by various intelligent tab completion and LLMs

Saving typing was never a value add for intelligent tab completion, it is mostly used for discovery and recall (what members does the type of this expression have?), not to accelerate your WPM. After around 20-30 wpm, typing speed is not a bottleneck in programming, but size of the API and how much you can fit into your head most definitely is.




Exactly. I wish I had tasks where typing at 120 wpm would be helpful. Because that would mean I’m writing new simple code.

Problem is, you run out of new simple code to write pretty fast and then you have to start thinking and typing speed becomes irellevant.




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