Throw away your code completion

I have written about missing the semi colon on the end of an IDE-completed line of code, and the various options for addressing it.

When I eventually disabled code completion, I found that the impact it had on typing speed was negligible. By turning it off I also gained something surprising: my ability to understand and recall the code I had just written improved. By typing in the closing } and ) that I had gotten so used to always being there, somehow mentally, my mind also captured the contained information better. It got closure for each function that it, well, closed.

Throw away your code completion
Take the noose off your ambition
Re-invent your intuition now

Typing an open { is telling my mind: “you have opened a function definition”, then I go about my business typing it out, maybe opening new { or ( for whatever reason, but always closing ) them } in order. In my mind, I still have the notion of something unfinished, until I type the final closing }. When the IDE adds it automatically, it removes pieces of the mental image I form of the code I just typed.

Try it out, it might surprise you just the same.

Renegades with fancy gauges
Slay the plague for it's contagious
Pull the plug and take the stages
Throw away your code completion now