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- In this question, coding assistants is not the same as coding agnts? I used opencode or pi, no use of AI code autocomplete.by juntz
- I don't find myself needing to open a code editor anymore. I ask agents to code and review using some custom review tooling I had agents build. I bother less and less about code details.by antoineMoPa
- I’m fully on letting agents write all code, no longer doing autocomplete. I switch between Claude Code and Codex mostly, although found Cursor’s cloud agents a nicer experience.
- I used to use it very heavily during the original copilot days back in 2021 but it has been made totally obsolete by long running agents. Can’t say I miss it, I don’t miss anything about writing syntax.by linesofcode
- I never used it. It hijacked my tab key in VS Code and made it impossible to do anything. I’m not sure if things have changed, but at the time there was seemingly no way to change the key binding, so it had to go.by al_borland
- I've used auto-complete back in 2022-2024 or so and really liked it. At one point, had to code offline and realized the speed up was mostly just a placebo in terms of productivity. I don't expect for auto-complete to have changed much, but since I don't delegate large tasks to agents, I've thought of trying it out again.by xpct
- I miss autocomplete; it was really fun a couple of years ago.
What I'd really like is an autocomplete (or pseudo code to language-of-choice) interface, with my agent continually adding the interactions to its context, so that I can chat with it about high-level project goals as the code matures.
by jMyles - I liked Cursor autocomplete a lot, it was very smart and adapted very well to your intentions, then, and they never will tell you, when they launched coding agents the autocomplete feature was somehow tuned down, not by being dumber but by being too proactive, so it resulted useless most of the timeby hollowturtle