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Well, you won’t know till you’ve tried. I am using another code completion AI in my IDE, and it’s wonderful. Why waste brain cells and time on mundane things

Well, you won’t know till you’ve tried. I am using another code completion AI in my IDE, and it’s wonderful. Why waste brain cells and time on mundane things when my time and attention is better spent thinking about the problem at hand. And in the future, AI will be able to take over more and more of the time. Eventually we will not be needed at all.

49531 4y ago
> Why waste brain cells and time on mundane things when my time and attention is better spent thinking about the problem at hand. This just sounds like a thought-terminating cliché; what mundane things are you spending your attention on while writing code? Sure, there are times where you might be generating boilerplate, cool, you're paying for a fancy snippet library, except the snippets are potentially malformed so you should check them every time.
- barbazoo 4y ago
  > what mundane things are you spending your attention on while writing code? To stick with my http library example, figuring out how to pass headers or a json body to a particular library, checking status codes, was it "status_code" or just status, is the body in an attribute called body or content or json or json(). I know this is trivial if you work with the same library over and over again but people are different and some of us work with a wide array of languages or libraries.
RugnirViking 4y ago
which particular code completion ai are you using? I'd be interested in trying some others just as a comparison to copilot
- codetrotter 4y ago
  Tabnine AI Code Completion plug-in for JetBrains CLion I code in Rust but said AI code completion works with some other languages also https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12798-tabnine-ai-code-completion-js-java-python-ts-rust-go-php--more https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12798-tabnine-ai-code-c...

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Well, you won’t know till you’ve tried. I am using another code completion AI in my IDE, and it’s wonderful. Why waste brain cells and time on mundane things

by codetrotter 4y ago

49531 4y ago
> Why waste brain cells and time on mundane things when my time and attention is better spent thinking about the problem at hand. This just sounds like a thought-terminating cliché; what mundane things are you spending your attention on while writing code? Sure, there are times where you might be generating boilerplate, cool, you're paying for a fancy snippet library, except the snippets are potentially malformed so you should check them every time.
- barbazoo 4y ago
  > what mundane things are you spending your attention on while writing code? To stick with my http library example, figuring out how to pass headers or a json body to a particular library, checking status codes, was it "status_code" or just status, is the body in an attribute called body or content or json or json(). I know this is trivial if you work with the same library over and over again but people are different and some of us work with a wide array of languages or libraries.
RugnirViking 4y ago
which particular code completion ai are you using? I'd be interested in trying some others just as a comparison to copilot
- codetrotter 4y ago
  Tabnine AI Code Completion plug-in for JetBrains CLion I code in Rust but said AI code completion works with some other languages also https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12798-tabnine-ai-code-completion-js-java-python-ts-rust-go-php--more https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12798-tabnine-ai-code-c...