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Klathmon | 1 year ago

LLM autocomplete is an entirely different beast.

Traditional auto complete can finish the statement you started typing, LLMs often suggest whole lines before I even type anything, and even sometimes whole functions.

And static types can assist the LLM too. It's not like it's an either or choice

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foobazgt|1 year ago

The author says they do the literal opposite:

"Almost all the completions I accept are complete boilerplate (filling out function arguments or types, for instance). It’s rare that I let Copilot produce business logic for me"

My experience is similar, except I get my IDE to complete these for me instead of an LLM.

neeleshs|1 year ago

I use LLM to generate complete solutions to small technical problems. "Write an input stream implementation that skips lines based on a regex".

Hard for an IDE auto complete to do this.

baq|1 year ago

> Copilot

…needn’t say more.

Copilot was utter garbage when I switched to cursor+claude, it was like some alien tech upgrade at first.