Comment by danpalmer
8 years ago
I've tried Kite twice now. Once when it first launched, and once again when I installed autocomplete-python and it persuaded me to give it another go.
So far I have found it utterly unconvincing to the point of near uselessness. It rarely finds anything intelligent to say about my code, and gives a significantly worse view of documentation than Dash (for which I have a hotkey bound for near-instant lookup).
On top of that, I found Kite to use significant resources, there's no way to inspect what it's uploading so now way to ensure you aren't uploading things you don't want to, and the second time I tried it the UI was filled with dark patterns and I found it quite difficult to uninstall (I reverted to just trashing all the files I could find relating to it).
I paid I think $79 for a year of Kite-pro and frankly, so far it is pretty useless. That said, it has permissions and settings to whitelist which folders on your computer can be indexed. Then, the settings page states that if you remove the directory from whitelisting then "any directories removed here will also be removed from Kite servers." Of course, that doesn't mean they will actually remove previously indexed data. Overall, probably this is a product that I would not want my dev team to install.
I'd ask for your money back. Installing Kite left me with a really bad after-taste, but at least I assumed that if I'd bought into it, it would do as advertised.