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The number of times I've had to help a colleague troubleshoot some VSCode thing seems to bear this out. I'm regarded as a 'wizard' because I actually know how to use git/build tools without a gui. It's kind of shocking to me how many developers' knowledge ends at the run button.

It doesn't bother me too much, because I like being needed, lol. But it would probably make our team more productive if people bothered to learn how our tooling works.




Yeah I remember early in my career, all the older people lived on the command line. I'd learned enough command line stuff an university to keep up and eventually become like that, but I now see people older than me clicking their way through everything.




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