The other day I was doing some programming without an LSP, and I felt lost without it. I was very familiar with the APIs I was using, but I couldn't remember the method names off the top of my head, so I had to reference docs extensively. I am reliant on LSP-powered tab completions to be productive, and my "memorizing API methods" skill has atrophied. But I'm not worried about this having some kind of impact on my brain health because not having to memorize API methods leaves more room for other things.

It's possible some people offload too much to LLMs but personally, my brain is still doing a lot of work even when I'm "vibecoding".

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akdev1l 2 days ago | parent [-]

Ironically this is one of my main use cases for LLMs

“Can you give me an example of how to read a video file using the Win32 API like it’s 2004?” - me trying to diagnose a windows game crashing under wine

	▲	seanw444 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Exactly. I feel this is the strongest use case. I can get personalized digests of documentation for exactly what I'm building. On the other hand, there's people that generate tokens to feed into a token generator that generates tokens which feeds its tokens to two other token generators which both use the tokens to generate two different categories of tokens for different tasks so that their tokens can be used by a "manager" token generator which generates tokens to... And so on. It's all so absurd.