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I've met many people smarter than myself who object to all of those.

One professor thought syntax highlighting was a distraction.

Lots of colleagues used vim/helix instead of IDEs.

I haven't met anyone who refused version control from an intelligent standpoint.

The most reasonable objection to AI from people who don't hate it are:

  I just don't know how it could help me; it's not as skilled as me at my job, and I'm already doing fine.


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