Neither? I'm surprised nobody has said it yet. I turned off AI autocomplete, and sometimes use the chat to debug or generate simple code but only when I prompt it to. Continuous autocomplete is just annoying and slows me down.
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I always forget syntax for things like ssh port forwarding. Now just describe it at the shell:
$ ssh (take my local port 80 and forward it to 8080 on the machine betsy) user@betsy
or maybe:
$ ffmpeg -ss 0:10:00 -i somevideo.mp4 -t 1:00 (speed it up 2x) out.webm
I press ctrl+x x and it will replace the english with a suggested command. It's been a total game changer for git, jq, rsync, ffmpeg, regex..
For more involved stuff there's screen-query: Confusing crashes, strange terminal errors, weird config scripts, it allows a joint investigation whereas aider and friends just feels like I'm asking AI to fuck around.
For extradata it sends uname and the procname when it captures such as "nvim" or "ipython" and that's it.
git cloen blahalalhah
I did a ctrl+x x and it fixed it. I'm using openrouter/google/gemma-3-27b-it:free via chutes. Not a frontier model in the slightest.