"A sufficiently advanced compiler" is a standard dark humor sick joke of the programming world.

I'd like to say that "a sufficiently advanced IDE" is similarly and indictment of whatever idea the phrase was used to try to defend. E.g. when somebody says oh don't worry about the ascii verbosity of a language, we can have our IDEs handle the boilerplate - yeah, well whoever suggests that is an idiot with apparently no practical experience in life. Consider IntelliJ can't refactor-move a non-static field of a class!?