Flying without Intellisense

As seasoned Windows hackers are well aware, opening an MSVC project on multiple machines LOCKS IntelliSense. Conceptually it's like flying without an HUD just like Luke Skywalker in the original version of Star Wars!! This gave me a great training idea...practising coding without IntelliSense. You need to know your APIs well, let me tell you! It's like chi sao blindfold! There are many benefits I can see with this training method:

1. creates an empathy for the programmers of yore who had no auto-completion
2. forces you to learn api method names accurately ....avoid conundrums like is it length or size...hmmm....I need to troll through all the auto-complete suggestions to find out which. thus it is a time-saver in the long-term.
3. forces you to design api names that are easily memorable and fit for purpose. You will also be tempted (probably) to shorten complex template names with typedefs, something you probably do already, but without IntelliSense you will be forced to embrace these disciplined habits!
4. In certain mixed-mode programming tasks, IntelliSense may need to be disabled for performance reasons
5. sometimes the .pcb file is locked and you can't use it anyway

If you want to be an AWESOME visual studio programmer (and who doesn't) try flying without IntelliSense from time to time. It's also more physically demanding to type all those method names (think of IntelliSense as the "power steering" of Visual Studio) but it's worth it.