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"I wonder how many new developers will have legit panic attacks if:

  * Slack is down
  * StackOverflow is down
  * their default docs website is down
  * their IDE of choice is being buggy and so they have to use
    something without autocomplete
Life gets harder when assistive tools are lost, no matter what the tool.


Harder yes for those, but the article is describing something that becomes impossible because there is no fallback, not just harder.


Yeah, after I saw what this person was doing, that's .... wow, that's a choice, given the current state of tools. They're far braver than I am.




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