I've tried Copilot, Tabnine, and a couple of the others out there. I find them to be an annoying Clippy-like companion that interrupts my train of thought and

I've tried Copilot, Tabnine, and a couple of the others out there. I find them to be an annoying Clippy-like companion that interrupts my train of thought and introduces a whole separate class of programming bugs: "autocomplete errors" which are like copy & paste errors, but written by another programmer. I like my auto-complete functionality built in to Jetbrains and Visual Studio for hinting at variable names, function parameters, classes, imports, and so forth. But the boiler-plate code that "assistant AI programmers" provide are not worth the effort at this time and do not live up to the hype. I think they help less experienced developers out, but the kind of code I am writing won't usually be found in Copilot or Tabnine. I could see the appeal if all I was doing was churning out boilerplate CRUD app code all day long, which honestly, I would outsource to Craigslist for thirty bucks an hour. Or just hand off to my assistant.