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Why are you not using a snippet manager? It is significantly faster than an LLM, it’s local, consumes far fewer resources, and actually returns a correct versio

by latexr 1y ago

Why are you not using a snippet manager? It is significantly faster than an LLM, it’s local, consumes far fewer resources, and actually returns a correct version of what you want based on your knowledge.

allenu 1y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't use LLMs for everything and do still copy-paste a lot from existing projects where I have an established pattern. LLMs can be a lot faster if you're tossing together an initial prototype with a lot of UI. I could type it all out or copy-paste bits and pieces, but just giving a few sentences of what I want and letting it go build is much faster.
- latexr 1y ago
  You don’t need to copy and paste manually. Snippet managers allow you to search for what you want and paste directly, or even type a few characters and have the text automatically replaced. There is no LLM which could ever be faster than a well-configured snippet manager for stuff you’ve done before. Not to mention you won‘t get random bad text thrown at you.
01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago
I have never heard of a snippet manager until right now. (In good faith:) Where did you hear of them? Should I be following news somewhere else? I see this one is popular and high on DDG: https://github.com/massCodeIO/massCode https://github.com/massCodeIO/massCode But there's no screenshots or example usages, and it's not obvious to me how it works. Is it like a local search engine you install? Is it an LSP? An LSP that's lighter than rust-analyzer could be useful for this kind of thing. Edit: I searched for "What is a snippet manager" and DDG search returned a bunch of useless-looking listicles, but their AI actually told me and linked to an article explaining it: https://www.codiga.io/blog/code-snippet-definition/ https://www.codiga.io/blog/code-snippet-definition/ Edit 2: I guess it's meant to be used as a VS Code extension. It might work as a standalone app but it would be a little unwieldy. I don't think my favorite text editor has a web view built in, so I couldn't install massCode in there
- latexr 1y ago
  > Where did you hear of them? I no longer recall, I’ve been using them for something like two decades. > But there's no screenshots or example usages, and it's not obvious to me how it works. See SnippetsLab for a good example of a snippets manager. https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/ https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/ > I guess it's meant to be used as a VS Code extension. It might work as a standalone app but it would be a little unwieldy. I prefer it as a standalone app. I don’t use VSCode nor would I want integration with my text editor. Snippet managers generally have ways of being invoked from anywhere, or you can type a few characters and have them replace the text, or you can search them from launchers like Alfred. https://www.alfredapp.com https://www.alfredapp.com https://alfred.app/workflows/renfei/snippetslab/ https://alfred.app/workflows/renfei/snippetslab/

by latexr 1y ago

allenu 1y ago

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't use LLMs for everything and do still copy-paste a lot from existing projects where I have an established pattern. LLMs can be a lot faster if you're tossing together an initial prototype with a lot of UI. I could type it all out or copy-paste bits and pieces, but just giving a few sentences of what I want and letting it go build is much faster.

latexr 1y ago
You don’t need to copy and paste manually. Snippet managers allow you to search for what you want and paste directly, or even type a few characters and have the text automatically replaced. There is no LLM which could ever be faster than a well-configured snippet manager for stuff you’ve done before. Not to mention you won‘t get random bad text thrown at you.

01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y ago

I have never heard of a snippet manager until right now. (In good faith:) Where did you hear of them? Should I be following news somewhere else? I see this one is popular and high on DDG: https://github.com/massCodeIO/massCode https://github.com/massCodeIO/massCode But there's no screenshots or example usages, and it's not obvious to me how it works. Is it like a local search engine you install? Is it an LSP? An LSP that's lighter than rust-analyzer could be useful for this kind of thing. Edit: I searched for "What is a snippet manager" and DDG search returned a bunch of useless-looking listicles, but their AI actually told me and linked to an article explaining it: https://www.codiga.io/blog/code-snippet-definition/ https://www.codiga.io/blog/code-snippet-definition/ Edit 2: I guess it's meant to be used as a VS Code extension. It might work as a standalone app but it would be a little unwieldy. I don't think my favorite text editor has a web view built in, so I couldn't install massCode in there

latexr 1y ago
> Where did you hear of them? I no longer recall, I’ve been using them for something like two decades. > But there's no screenshots or example usages, and it's not obvious to me how it works. See SnippetsLab for a good example of a snippets manager. https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/ https://www.renfei.org/snippets-lab/ > I guess it's meant to be used as a VS Code extension. It might work as a standalone app but it would be a little unwieldy. I prefer it as a standalone app. I don’t use VSCode nor would I want integration with my text editor. Snippet managers generally have ways of being invoked from anywhere, or you can type a few characters and have them replace the text, or you can search them from launchers like Alfred. https://www.alfredapp.com https://www.alfredapp.com https://alfred.app/workflows/renfei/snippetslab/ https://alfred.app/workflows/renfei/snippetslab/