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by infecto 46 days ago
People keep saying this but I have yet to find an integrated system that has good tab completion, cheap coding models and works well in an IDE. There are a number of options out there, none of them have captured much market share.
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giancarlostoro 46 days ago
Zed seems to always suggest decent single-line comments for me, but I don't really use Zed for that that often.
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infecto 46 days ago
Have tried it over time. I think it’s decent but I still found it to be not as great or quick as Cursor and the rest of their AI integration did not feel as compelling for my workflow.l but overall agree.
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suncemoje 46 days ago
Isn't tab completion long dead?
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infecto 46 days ago
Do you have a point? The whole package is compelling like I already said. Nobody has replicated it but everyone likes to ask what is the value but never share a compelling competing product. I am not Boris so I still write some code or make manual tweaks, autocomplete is nice.

Edit: I realize my question is maybe harsh but I think it’s valid for these drive by comments that drop a question like “isn’t tab completion dead?” Without any other substance it is a huge detractor to the comment quality of the site. At least add more substance or opinion.

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suncemoje 46 days ago
All good, no offense from my side, apologies for the disturbance if it caused any. Generally would have just been curious if people still use tab completion much? Virtually all people I know have switched to Claude Code or Codex. I also read recently that Boris Cherny (CC creator) deleted his IDE. Of course that's marketing, but it shows the current state quite directly. So I'm wondering what your dev workflow looks like? Any why/when you use tab completion instead of coding agents.
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infecto 46 days ago
No issues here but I think it helps to add a few thoughts to continue the dialogue.

I think it’s largely shaped by the type of work you are doing and I am not sold on the idea that we are at a point of never writing code. I leverage these tools a lot and there is still nuanced mistakes LLMs make that I have to intercept. I am still in the code at least for now. Other than my friends that work in startups I have not seen too much others delete their IDE and not have any touch on the code.

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