310 points skarat | 2 comments | 12 May 25 04:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
Things are changing so fast with these vscode forks I m barely able to keep up. Which one are you guys using currently? How does the autocomplete etc, compare between the two?
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.
I can't even get simple code generation to work for VHDL. It just gives me garbage that does not compile. I have to assume this is not the case for the majority of people using more popular languages? Is this because the training data for VHDL is far more limited? Are these "AIs" not able to consume the VHDL language spec and give me actual legal syntax at least?! Or is this because I'm being cheap and lazy by only trying free chatGPT and I should be using something else?
It's very helpful for low level chores. The bane of my existence is frontend, and generating UI elements for testing backend work on the fly rocks. I like the analogy of it being a junior dev; Perhaps even an intern. You should check their work constantly and give them extremely pedantic instructions