[fovc]

The “pair programming” approach with good models is just slow enough that I lose focus on each step. The faster models I’ve tried are not good enough except for straightforward things where it’s faster to just use emacs/LSP refactoring and editing tools. Maybe supermaven manages to beat the “good enough, fast enough” bar; I’ll have to try it!

[nzach]

One thing I've realized after using a really fast model is that the time it takes the model to generate a suggestion is proportional to the size of suggestion I'm willing to accept. And in my experience the quality of suggestions decreases when the suggestion size increases.

If the model takes a couple seconds to generate a suggestion I get inclined to accept several lines of code. But if the suggestion takes just 300ms to generate I don't feel the "need" to accept the suggested code.

I'm not really sure why that happens, maybe that's just the sunk cost fallacy happening right in my editor? If I wait 5 seconds for a suggestion and don't use the suggestion did I effectively just wasted 5 seconds of my life for no good reason?

[jitl]

I think having supermaven or cursor-style IDE integration is really key to making LSP worth it, otherwise friction around the workflow overwhelms the gains for many tasks. Like, I would never use AI to generate code or tests if it involved copy-pasting code in and out of webpage text boxes. But with IDE integration, I often write a function signature and doc comment with no plans to ask AI for anything, but the AI happens to offer a correct tab completion of the whole function. That's great, much less typing for me.