5 Ways Your IDE is Smarter Than You
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If you’re using Xcode you probably don’t have any of these creature comforts. To that, I’d say this:
That isn’t my problem.
Here are the ways that your IDE is better than you. If you’re reading this in 2025 as an unemployed programmer, that’s because your IDE has replaced you entirely.
Sorry about that.
In there here and now your IDE is still smarter than the majority of developers.
Let us take a look.
It remembers everything
Remember that time you forgot what you were coding? You didn’t know which files you’d modified and where you made that logical slip in your code. Remember you got all confused and in a fluster?
Your IDE does none of that. Saving, undo, redo. As you’d expect. Each and every time.
Nothing wrong with my memory. What were you talking about?
Spellchecking
Your spelling is full of mistkes. Don’t worry, your IDE has your back. Perhaps one day it will autocorrect your stupid naming of classes that makes no sense.
That seems quite an aggressive stance to naming.
Copy paste
It’s likely that a majority of people reading this blog love to copy-paste code.
Which is why it doesn’t work half the time, junior.
Your IDE is way ahead of you. It does the grunt work in copy-paste but also can use shortcuts for code snippets. It’s fast, efficient and fun.
Unlike you.
Smart refactoring
Changing the name of that property can become a real chore when there are so many references in the code to it. Your IDE makes this task simple and carries the load. Love your IDE!
Most developers at my place don’t know what refactoring is.
Autocompletion
It feels like your IDE is reading your mind. That’s useful because it seems half the time you can’t remember the name of that method. It’s like magic, providing suggestions even before you finish typing.
Nobody knows what is truly in my mind, though.
*Silence*
Conclusion
If my IDE is smarter than me, at least it’s slower. I know that’s because I’m using a machine from 2019, but it’s still slower.
So, I win, right?