“IDEs considered harmful”. That's exactly the thesis of Nicholas Carr's book, “The Glass Cage”. He claims the more we employ cognitive-enhancing tools like IDEs to help us perform tasks that require mental effort, the less engaged we become, the less creative, and the less effort we're willing to apply in tackling other kinds of mental tasks. In short, “flow” stops when we disengage and let automation to do the job for us.

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