The hard way

Taking cold showers. Taking the stairs. Lifting heavy things. Waking up early. Going to church (and confession). Fasting. Having children. Telling the truth instead of a kind lie. Eating healthy food. Reading (old) books instead of scrolling. Using a standing desk. Save money (avoid debt).

There are a lot of things we do in life because they are hard. We know that the hard things make us better.

They're hard in the moment, but make us stronger in the future. Investments, not debt.

Will Copilot (and AI coding agents) make me weak in the long-run? What about even just Intellisense (LSP) or working in a standard IDE?

Even typing this in VSCode, Copilot is suggesting entire lines and blocks of code for me. It's making me lazier already.

(I just hit tab after typing '..., Copilot ') above.

Should I use Vim, instead? Without an LSP? Definitely without Copilot (or Grok)? Without Visual Studio or Rider? Just the terminal and my keyboard?

Will it actually make me better in the long run? Or am I glorifying the hard way too much, out of balance, such that it will sacrifice my total productivity (and value added to society)?

Is it at least worth it for periods of time, similarly to periodic fasting?

What's the coding equivalent to "autophagy"?

I have a lot of questions and not a lot of answers. I just know that I've been obsessed with a lot of these thoughts the past couple weeks, so I'm going to have to try something soon.

Until then, happy fasting!