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by rattlesnakedave 309 days ago
In my personal projects I also require all contributors to disclose rather they’ve used an editor with any autocomplete features enabled.
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Heh, that's a great way to make a point, but right now AI is nowhere near what a traditional editor autocomplete is. Yes you can use it that way, but it's by no means limited to that. If you think of AI as a fancy autocomplete, that's a good personal philosophy, but there are plenty of people that aren't using it that way
The line isn’t as clear as you might think, eg jetbrains has a mini on-device neural net powered autocomplete:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/full-line-code-completio...

Notably, tab completion is an explicltly called-out exception to this policy, as detailed in the changed docs.
Autocomplete is, for the most part, a syntactic tool. AI attempts to guide the semantics of the code generated