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Look, I use AI regularly. I value AI. It's not a criticism of AI, broadly, it's commentary on a feature designed to make engineers (and increasingly non-engine

Look, I use AI regularly. I value AI. It's not a criticism of AI, broadly, it's commentary on a feature designed to make engineers (and increasingly non-engineers) even lazier about one of the main points of leverage in making AI useful.

enraged_camel 1y ago
Autocomplete is one of Cursor's most popular features, and is cited as the only reason some people continue to use it. And you're mocking the Cursor team for adding it to the one place where devs still type a lot of text, and making a value judgment by calling it lazy.
- aeon_ai 1y ago
  > adding it to the one place where devs still type a lot of text Because that's where the text the devs type still matters most. Do I care significantly about this feature's existence, and find it an affront to humanity? No. But, people who find themselves using auto-complete to make even their prompts for them will absolutely be disintermediated, so I think it wise to ensure people understand that by making funny jokes about it.
  - simianwords 1y ago
    You come across as smug but there really is value in this. Let’s get rid of autocorrect in ChatGPT while we are at it? Same logic right?
- noodletheworld 1y ago
  It’s obviously farcical. Anyone seriously using these tools knows that context engineering and detailed specific prompting is the way to be effective with agent coding. Just take it to the extreme and youll see; what if you auto complete from a single word? A single character? The system youre using is increasingly generating some random output instead of what you were either a) trying to do, or b) told to do. Its funny because its like, “How can we make vibe coding even worse?” “…I know, lets just generate random code from random prompts” There have been multiple recent posts about how to direct agents using a combination of planning step, context summary/packing, etc to craft detailed prompts that agents can effectively action on large code bases. …or yeah, just hit tab and go make a coffee. Yolo. This could have been a killer feature about using a research step to enhance a user prompt and turn it into a super prompt; but it isnt.
  - simianwords 1y ago
    What’s wrong with autocompleting the prompt? There exists entropy even in the English language and especially in the prompts we feed to the llms. If I write something like “fix the ab..” and it autocompletes to AbstractBeanFactory based on the context, isn’t it useful?
    - yunwal 1y ago
      Agreed with your point, but entropy is almost the opposite of what you wanted to express here (which is that the English language is compressible).
      - simianwords 1y ago
        Yes agreed maybe compressibility was the right term. (Opposite of high entropy)

enraged_camel 1y ago

Autocomplete is one of Cursor's most popular features, and is cited as the only reason some people continue to use it. And you're mocking the Cursor team for adding it to the one place where devs still type a lot of text, and making a value judgment by calling it lazy.

aeon_ai 1y ago
> adding it to the one place where devs still type a lot of text Because that's where the text the devs type still matters most. Do I care significantly about this feature's existence, and find it an affront to humanity? No. But, people who find themselves using auto-complete to make even their prompts for them will absolutely be disintermediated, so I think it wise to ensure people understand that by making funny jokes about it.
- simianwords 1y ago
  You come across as smug but there really is value in this. Let’s get rid of autocorrect in ChatGPT while we are at it? Same logic right?
noodletheworld 1y ago
It’s obviously farcical. Anyone seriously using these tools knows that context engineering and detailed specific prompting is the way to be effective with agent coding. Just take it to the extreme and youll see; what if you auto complete from a single word? A single character? The system youre using is increasingly generating some random output instead of what you were either a) trying to do, or b) told to do. Its funny because its like, “How can we make vibe coding even worse?” “…I know, lets just generate random code from random prompts” There have been multiple recent posts about how to direct agents using a combination of planning step, context summary/packing, etc to craft detailed prompts that agents can effectively action on large code bases. …or yeah, just hit tab and go make a coffee. Yolo. This could have been a killer feature about using a research step to enhance a user prompt and turn it into a super prompt; but it isnt.
- simianwords 1y ago
  What’s wrong with autocompleting the prompt? There exists entropy even in the English language and especially in the prompts we feed to the llms. If I write something like “fix the ab..” and it autocompletes to AbstractBeanFactory based on the context, isn’t it useful?
  - yunwal 1y ago
    Agreed with your point, but entropy is almost the opposite of what you wanted to express here (which is that the English language is compressible).
    - simianwords 1y ago
      Yes agreed maybe compressibility was the right term. (Opposite of high entropy)