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by gnrlst 1748 days ago
I've experienced this first hand: the autosuggest is scarily accurate and insidious at the same time. On numerous occasions I've auto-filled a 10-15 line suggestion that looked like it was exactly what I wanted to do, but made a very critical mistake (e.g. in a For loop, referencing the wrong array despite calling it the right name). Not really security related stuff, but head scratchers that make it harder to debug since I didn't actually write the code.