I was a relatively early Tabnine user and suggested this time two years ago that people were “sleeping” on AI code completion. [1] I read about and tried evalu

I was a relatively early Tabnine user and suggested this time two years ago that people were “sleeping” on AI code completion. [1] I read about and tried evaluating Kite at the time and it seemed like it was in some kind of private invite stage. I remember thinking it must have been acquired and wasn’t taking new users. This must have been an incorrect take. I’m surprised Tabnine is not mentioned in this thread at all, though because that was acquired and afaik is still operating. Before copilot came along, Tabnine, not Kite, seemed like the ai took to beat. I also remember a Python dev relations person from Jetbrains going on a podcast and clowning on AI code completion. That was in April of 2021. [2] A month later copilot dropped. The very strange thing about that was Jetbrains described efforts to build an ML-based code completion plug-in in 2016! [3] It obviously failed to follow through on that. I still think G Co pilot represents a threat to jetbrains IDEs overall. Even the packaged autocomplete can’t compete on basic stuff copilot does now. I disagree with the idea that AI code completion is not good enough yet. I see that said all the time and yet it can masterfully fill in boiler plate today. It can be way better, particularly in languages outside JavaScript and Python, but it’s usable now and maybe even profitable as a service if the business is not leveraged by VC capital. If you listen to the September interview with Eddie Aftandilian of Github Copilot you would realize how early it still is for that product, as how to measure success in code completion is something still requiring behavioral patterns that are still being recorded. Here’s the episode, listen 20 mins in: https://www.se-radio.net/2022/10/episode-533-eddie-aftandilian-on-github-copilot/ https://www.se-radio.net/2022/10/episode-533-eddie-aftandili... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074393 [2] https://twitter.com/jetsetter/status/1379438096232587265 https://twitter.com/jetsetter/status/1379438096232587265 [3] https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/09/share-your-stats-to-improve-code-completion-via-machine-learning/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2016/09/share-your-stats-to-...