When I started programming, learning my environment WAS the thing. Somewhere along the line, improving my dev environment felt like toil- wrestling with configs and bash scripts while juggling deadlines. Sometimes it was fun, often it was not. AI has completely changed that. My dev environment has become the playground for my imagination.
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