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For those trying to remember, microsoft intellisense (autocompletion within the IDE) was a big subject of debate going back to ~1999 on whether it'll make programmers lazier or more productive.

Some of this stuff would be found in old slashdot discussions but it seems harder to find, im finding an old John Carmack interview as one mention: https://m.slashdot.org/story/7828

Here might be the original slashdot discussion of "Does visual studio rot the brain?" (2005) https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/10/26/1935250/does-visual...




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