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That sure sounds like you're describing customizable snippets, which AFAIK every major editor supports?

bubblewand 8mo ago
Sitting here on the sidelines having never configured snippets or macros or any of that in any of my editors, which I could have done like 30 years ago but never bothered in all this time, doing quizzical-dog look at all these people thrilled about LLMs. I guess they might finally get me to use those things since they take the “configuring” and “remembering shortcuts” part out, but so much of this doesn’t look new at all. Super old, actually.
- truetraveller 8mo ago
  In my objective opinion, almost all AI uses cases (coding or otherwise), are just because of people's extreme laziness in spending a little time setting up some "automated" workflow, be it canned templates or whatever. The non-AI approach has the added benefit of being precise!
rhdunn 8mo ago
Customizable snipping is a feature editors support (which I mentioned as they are related/similar to what the AI is doing), but is different to the AI autocomplete behaviour. If I have a JSON structure, I can paste that into the file as a comment, e.g.: # {"foo": 1, "bar": "test", "baz"} @dataclass class FooBar: foo: and the AI will/can autocomplete/generate that to: @dataclass class FooBar: foo: int bar: str baz: int using the JSON example. Then if you type: def __str__(self): the AI could then contextually generate, e.g.: return f'Foo(foo={self.foo}, bar={self.bar}, baz={self.baz})' Or if you have a SQLAlchemy model: class Foo(Base): __tablename__ = 'foos' bar_id: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(ForeignKey('bars.id'), default=None) typing `bar:` the AI can autocomplete: bar: Mapped[Optional['Bar']] = relationship() picking up that you have a `Bar` class in the file. Especially if you have other similar id/object definitions in the file.
- bandrami 8mo ago
  Right, it's a less-flexible paste macro you don't actually have control over. shrug
  - direwolf20 8mo ago
    It's a DWIM button.

Sitting here on the sidelines having never configured snippets or macros or any of that in any of my editors, which I could have done like 30 years ago but never bothered in all this time, doing quizzical-dog look at all these people thrilled about LLMs. I guess they might finally get me to use those things since they take the “configuring” and “remembering shortcuts” part out, but so much of this doesn’t look new at all. Super old, actually.

truetraveller 8mo ago
In my objective opinion, almost all AI uses cases (coding or otherwise), are just because of people's extreme laziness in spending a little time setting up some "automated" workflow, be it canned templates or whatever. The non-AI approach has the added benefit of being precise!

rhdunn 8mo ago

Customizable snipping is a feature editors support (which I mentioned as they are related/similar to what the AI is doing), but is different to the AI autocomplete behaviour. If I have a JSON structure, I can paste that into the file as a comment, e.g.: # {"foo": 1, "bar": "test", "baz"} @dataclass class FooBar: foo: and the AI will/can autocomplete/generate that to: @dataclass class FooBar: foo: int bar: str baz: int using the JSON example. Then if you type: def __str__(self): the AI could then contextually generate, e.g.: return f'Foo(foo={self.foo}, bar={self.bar}, baz={self.baz})' Or if you have a SQLAlchemy model: class Foo(Base): __tablename__ = 'foos' bar_id: Mapped[int | None] = mapped_column(ForeignKey('bars.id'), default=None) typing `bar:` the AI can autocomplete: bar: Mapped[Optional['Bar']] = relationship() picking up that you have a `Bar` class in the file. Especially if you have other similar id/object definitions in the file.

bandrami 8mo ago
Right, it's a less-flexible paste macro you don't actually have control over. shrug
- direwolf20 8mo ago
  It's a DWIM button.