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The temptation to use IDE-based AI is too great, so the industry is just going to to it, and we're just going to have to live with it. It's unfortunate.

Most devs who like AI-coding seem to think AI code-completion is more efficient than chatting with a LLM. Yes, it's true that code-completion is *faster*. But I think chatting with a LLM is more effective.

I'm not going to go into specifics about it now, but maybe if you give it some thought you'll realize the difference. When you're coding you don't always convey your intent to the AI, so it's important to add context with comments. Most coders are too lazy to do that.

Chatting can be just as bad, because many people have horrific prompting style. But I think it's more natural in chat to provide context and explanation, as well as corrections and "oh that's not what i meant" and "in your second point, what exactly do you mean by 'coverage'?", etc. The chat interaction allows you to really hone the code iteratively where both you and the AI have the meaning nailed down.