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I like your linked article on English as a specification language I spent a few words on that too setting up under-specification as a problem to later discuss over-specification. I tried to draw an analogy with legalese and the carton of eggs joke.

Like freewriting for code…I like it!

yepppp I 1000% agree I said something somewhat similar recently: bsky.app/profile/full...

yea i feel this. i attribute a lot of my proficiency at programming in general to getting used to environments like text editors without language servers and golfing, going through aoc/codingame, etc. going to look at the documentation is expensive time-wise and time matters, so you learn.

me tooooo

you're welcome! ^^

you're welcome! ^^

I guess I am a dinasour, this is the only way for me, I try to direct reference the language docs if I can't remember how it's done. The LLM stuff still feels slower, and stack overflow can give you hints, but it is best to know what your code really does

This is really well put. As someone whose not a coder by trade, even without agents etc I struggle to remember whats in the rust std lib etc just from standard ide tooling.

“Prosthetics considered crutches”

my profs pushed for this alot in 2018. i think it was to help prep for interviews, but it really does help (as much as i hated it back then x3)