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Yeah, these days, IDEs like JetBrains are powerful enough that you can pull off significant chunks of refactors with a few right clicks (any sort of renaming, moving of methods, or deletion of code)

Typing will get you places faster, but some of the most productive tools we have don’t rely on it at all.




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