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"Why autocomplete within software development may be a dead end" I can't think of many things more boring than arguing whether "autocomplete is bad" or "autoco
by throwaway290 2y ago
"Why autocomplete within software development may be a dead end"
I can't think of many things more boring than arguing whether "autocomplete is bad" or "autocomplete is superpower".
Autocomplete is more advanced = saves you more time at first, but because you still need to review the autocompleted part and know exactly how it works it does not save as much time as you thought.
News at 11.
For 100500th time it turns out that typing speed is not the bottleneck if you are doing anything original and generating more code in less time is not such a win as you'd think. However, we don't always get to do original stuff, and 90% of programmers do unoriginal stuff 90% of the time.
An interesting question is whether autocomplete that autocompletes based on others code without their permission is stealing but even that is less interesting in software because mostly licenses are permissive (not so much in art etc)