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by wmorgan 26 days ago
It’s talking about how you can type

  def frobQux(Qux qux, int radians) {
And it goes and reads your code and suggests a reasonable way to frob a qux a certain number of radians. Which is at the same time (a) pretty useful!, (b) fairly new, we’ve only been able to do this since 2023 or so, but (c) also not that hard by 2026 standards because capabilities have advanced so much in the last three years.
2 comments

"int radians" is a pretty strong code smell! I would be very worried about any struggle l autocomplete that followed something like that ;)
Why would anyone be using Fable, Opus or even Sonnet for that type of work? You don’t need an advanced reasoning model for that at all.
If you already knew that the answer was to frob a qux, you wouldn't need the reasoning trash either.
> Why would anyone be using Fable, Opus or even Sonnet for that type of work? You don’t need an advanced reasoning model for that at all.

Don't leave me hanging: how do you frob a qux a certain number of radians?

Generative autocomplete with an underpowered model is pretty annoying. It hallucinates parameters and APIs. Something like Sonnet seems like the right level of sophistication.