Comment by antonvs

The title should be more like "Juniors shouldn't rely entirely on VS Code." The author wrote:

> "I've seen countless junior developers freeze when their IDE isn't available or when they need to work on a remote server."

This is a valid point: juniors are limiting themselves if they rely on an IDE for everything, to the point of not being able to perform coding-related operations from the terminal effectively, or not even being aware of what the IDE is doing for them.

But once you have that knowledge, using an IDE tends to make a lot of sense. That also allows you to make an informed choice about which operations make sense in an IDE vs. the terminal.

Also VS Code has a good integrated terminal, so it's not an entirely either-or choice. Some of the new AI coding assistants integrate terminal operations with VS Code very well. The real advice should be learn both.