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Comment by socalgal2

1 day ago

just curious because I'm inexperienced with all the latest tools here

> - Tab completion model (Cursor's remaining moat)

What is that? I have Gemini Code Assist installed in VSCode and I'm getting tab completion. (yes, LLM based tab completion)

Which, as an aside I find useful when it works but also often extremely confusing to read. Like say in C++ I type

    int myVar = 123

The editor might show

    int myVar = 123;

And it's nearly impossible to tell that I didn't enter that `;` so I move on to the next line instead of pressing tab only to find the `;` wasn't really there. That's also probably an easy example. Literally it feels like 1 of 6 lines I type I can't tell what is actually in the file and what is being suggested. Any tips? Maybe I just need to set some special background color for text being suggested.

and PS: that tiny example is not an example of a great tab completion. A better one is when I start editing 1 of 10 similar lines, I edit the first one, it sees the pattern and auto does the other 9. Can also do the "type a comment and it fills in the code" thing. Just trying to be clear I'm getting LLM tab completion and not using Cursor

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james_marks  1 day ago

This feeling of, “what exactly is in the file?” is why I have all AI turned off in my IDE, and run CC independently.

I get all AI or none, so it’s always obvious what’s happening.

Completions are OK, but I did not enjoy the feeling of both us having a hand on the wheel and trying to type at the same time.

  • acka  18 hours ago

    It gets even worse when all three of IntelliSense, AI completion, and the human are all vying for control of the input. This can be very frustrating at times.

ec109685  1 day ago

Tab completion in cursor lets you keep hitting tab and it will jump to next logical spot in file to keep editing or completing from.