A surprisingly large number of musicians do use things like written music (a medieval invention, but came into its own in the renaissance) or amplifiers (a modern one).
Ah, I personally read it as "Use of good tools makes you more competitive",
but you're right that "I firmly believe that AI will not replace developers, but a developer using AI will replace a developer who does not." could have multiple other readings too.
Haha I'm glad to hear it, because I do the same of course.
What I might not have mentioned is that I've spent the last 5 years and 20,000 or so hours building an IDE from scratch. Not a fork of VSCode, mind you, but the real deal: a new "kernel" and integration layer with abilities that VSCode and its forks can't even dream of. It's a proper race and I'm about to drop the hammer on you.
This is true for 99% of developers who aren't particularly talented or driven, e.g. the average engineer who treats their job as a job and not their passion.
