[mckravchyk]

Some people say that it has greatly enhanced their abilities, other people say that it's mostly useless. I am myself in the latter camp. I never build the habit of using it because it failed miserably on relatively simple things. However, even if it was smarter, I can hardly see how it could be faster to design the prompt, correct it multiple times vs. just typing code in flow state.

[pennomi]

What about things like copilot that are simply predictive autocomplete? It doesn’t pull you out of flow state but dramatically increases typing speed, especially for boilerplate.

[ab5tract]

It absolutely kills flow state for me personally because I’m being shown code completions that may or may not have anything to do with what I am actually about to write.

When I allow myself to review the relevance and correctness of the attempted completion, I have to set aside the actual code that I was envisioning. This may or may not be easily recoverable after the (generally wrong) suggested completion is dismissed.

I am not neurotypical, and we are all different anyway, so it is obviously different for others. But I disabled the active code assistance option at work almost immediately due to it being actively harmful to maintaining flow state.