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Take everything Cal Newport is talking about with a large grain of salt.

I don't know a single person with a bit of seniority, using Claude Code, who wants to go back to any IDE from 5 years ago.



That's a narrow category.

If you stated a senior who tried Claude Code and is still using an IDE that number is much higher.

Still using Claude and wants to go back to an IDE.. why wouldn't they go back... why keep using Claude Code and pining for a IDE. That's a small small group.


Yep. I mentally inserted the subtitle "... especially not Cal Newport"


You do know he’s a CS professor, right? But he’s not on the cutting edge of agentic blah-blah AI, so maybe it doesn’t hold as much water these days.


Being a CS professor informs a person in no way about developer productivity.


I couldn't stand Cal Newport's self-help articles 10 years ago, I am triggered today seeing this "article" on the top of HN




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