

Actually, nope! Claiming that you personally didn’t learn with an IDE and that there are make-believe scenarios where one is not available is not actually addressing the argument.
There really aren’t any situations that make any sense at all where an IDE is not available. I’ve worked in literally the most strict and locked down environments in the world, and there is always approved software and tools to use… because duh! Of course there is, silly, work needs to get done. Unless you’re talking about a coding 101 class or something academic and basic. Anyway, that’s totally irrelevant regardless, because its PURE fantasy to have access to something like Claude and not have access to an IDE. So your argument is entirely flawed and invalid.
It’s not just media. The number of software engineers I’ve heard talk about “fixing” a “zero day” in a code dependency by updating to a patched version…