Rarely post a meme cuz we kinda know all I guess but this one is so good: https://reddit.com/r/VisualStudio/...

(Link cuz it's animated)

Is this a default or plugin?

@Demolishun default. I use AI autocompletion myself. Blast to work with (most of time). It's the default completion + 90% the thing what you would type anyway until it becomes 100% if you keep typing. There's no reason not to use AI autocomplete. How can people hate autocomplete? It can be wrong? Just keep typing so it selects the next element in the list. AI autocomplete works the same but doesn't show any list. That there's smth different is in people's heads. And no, it's not stealing someone else's code if you would've typed it anyway. Everything you know is stolen, just like the knowledge of AI so it matches many times

@retoor
Jeez, we are using AI now for autocomplete? AUTOCOMPLETE?!

Just use a good language with a proper type system and you can have a perfectly capable autocomplete.
This shit has been around for decades.

I guess this concept is new to the folks of dynamically typed languages.

@Lensflare I am imagining that autocomplete isn't AI at all. But low cost labor filling in the text. Which leads me to some really racist thinking.

@Lensflare It's not the same dude. Normally autocomplete does a word. Now it does a line. It's a huge upgrade. An autocomplete using your style of coding / name declaration. That's difference. And yes, I know I kill a tree or squirrel with every time I let it predict smth. I have 700 autocompletes in a week. I would say that not nothing.

Edit: youre right! It actually would do autocomplete for dynamic languages. It's even greater than I thought

@retoor AI autocomplete doesn't understand the context, though. You ask it to work on your code, and it provides exactly what you asked for… but for one of the projects it was trained on. Sometimes it even messes up variable names. It's like a very, very annoying intern goldfish - never learns, can't remember what you talked about yesterday, and lies when asked if it understands. If you want whole lines, or even paragraphs, snippets are way better.

@cprn it can even autocomplete variables that don't exist often. It's crazy. It's the art to work with AI but don't become lazy. Stay sharp I guess. Do you use AI autocomplete?