Comment by gleenn
13 hours ago
Same, I use Claude but cannot stand typing and being constantly flashed with suggestions that aren't right and have to keep hitting escape to cancel them. It's either manual or full AI for me. This happens in a lot if web tools that have been enhanced with AI, like a few databases with web UIs that allow querying. They are so bad. I really wish they would just dump the whole schema into the context before I begin because I don't need fancy autocomplete, I need schema, table, and column autocomplete wayyy more than I need it to scaffold out a SELECT for me.
I have it on a long timer so that I have to pause for a while before the auto-complete prompt appears. I've found I tend to deliberately set things up for it to attempt when I know I'm going to have to type a bunch of boiler plate or some code that's logically straightforward but syntactically fiddly ie. I write a quick comment describing what the next few lines should do and then wait a seconds for it to make the suggestion