Comment by bagacrap

6 days ago

An AI powered autocompletion engine is an AI tool. I think few developers would complain about saving a few keystrokes.

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sethops1  6 days ago

I think few developers didn't already have powerful autocomplete engines at their disposal.

  • pdntspa  6 days ago

    The AI autocomplete I use (Jetbrains) stands head-and-shoulders above its non-AI autocomplete, and Jetbrains' autocomplete is already considered best-in-class. Its python support is so good that I still haven't figured out how to get anything even remotely close to it running in VSCode

    • hyperman1  5 days ago

      The Jetbrains AI autocomplete is indeed a lot better than the old one, but I can't predict it, so I have to keep watching it.

      E.g. a few days ago I wanted to verify if a rebuilt DB table matched the original. So we built a query with autocomplete

      SELECT ... FROM newtable n JOIN oldtable o ON ... WHERE n.field1<> o.field1 OR

      and now we start autocompleting field comparisons and it nicely keeps generating similar code.

      Until: n.field11<> o.field10

      Wait? Why 10 instead of 11?