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by markus_zhang 447 days ago
This is an interesting observation.

The difference between code completion, intellisense and AI coding, is that code completion merely gives you the name of a variable or a function, while AI coding thinks for you, which is really bad.

That's why I despise Copilot and other AI tools that are embedded in IDEs. I'm OK with ChatGPT because it is in a different window and I'm much inclined to use it -- and when I use it I try not to let ChatGPT think for me, but things like Copilot tries to get into my coding.

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Right, there's a difference between replacing your memory versus replacing your goal-setting.