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Some thoughts on LLMs and software development

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416 points floverfelt | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 18:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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iLoveOncall ◴[28 Aug 25 20:08 UTC] No.45056500[source]▶
> One of the big problems with these surveys is that they aren’t taking into account how people are using the LLMs. From what I can tell the vast majority of LLM usage is fancy auto-complete, often using co-pilot.

This is a completely wrong assumption and negates a bunch of the points of the article...

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epolanski ◴[28 Aug 25 22:09 UTC] No.45057618[source]▶
How is it wrong?

Do you have any hard number and data to state that tab/auto complete are less popular than agentic coding?

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1. daveguy ◴[29 Aug 25 00:46 UTC] No.45058708[source]▶
I would expect it to be almost tautologically true. It's the easiest to implement, and the most deployed. It has to be the most used, even if a lot of people don't know they're using it.

It was the original success of LLMs -- code autocomplete. All of the agentic coding have autocomplete under the hood. Autocomplete is almost literally what LLMs do + post-processing.