Comment by dent9

AI auto complete in your IDE is one of the worst gimmicks in the past decade, but not as bad as letting the AI write the code for you.

I had to turn that crap off because how are you supposed to concentrate on your code when the VS Code is incessantly throwing snippets at you?

It looks cool when you watch other people with it enabled but actually programming that way is like getting slapped in the face between each key stroke.

After fifteen minutes you realize that you spent all your time reading the opaque auto complete suggestions trying to figure out what they're doing and how they work, instead of actually getting any code committed.

I will tell ChatGPT what my context and situation is and review it's suggestions and then select the parts I want to copy paste in by hand and manually test. That's been pretty effective and it's basically a more effective drop in replacement for searching Stack Overflow for each code snippet you need. But putting the AI inside your editor is the biggest over hyped time waster I ever seen