You joke but when I first picked up C, I did find it quite helpful to write it in a plain text editor and write my own Makefiles to understand what project setup the IDEs would abstract away - our uni also had pen-and-paper exams where relying on autocomplete would have been difficult :)
(Likewise I can see "you should have read through your generated code and understood the key points yourself" becoming the rule of thumb for keeping maintainers accountable in a project, keeping the pace of changes manageable, and keeping the codebase from becoming a rat's nest _only_ agents can work with)
(Likewise I can see "you should have read through your generated code and understood the key points yourself" becoming the rule of thumb for keeping maintainers accountable in a project, keeping the pace of changes manageable, and keeping the codebase from becoming a rat's nest _only_ agents can work with)