That old autocomplete is great. It’s specifically the AI autocomplete that’s less useful.

Wow, well it’s absolutely terrible at A. B is worth a shot, but it’s 50/50 to bullshit you in my experience.

Eh, I’ve enjoyed writing a SQL query and having AI translate it to Linq. I’ve had at least one work directly, very clear on what it’s doing, just with Linq’s odd syntax. The other query was more complicated and wasn’t something that translated well to Linq. I may have had to split that into two Linq queries.

Then again, I wouldn’t count translating psuedocode (or SQL) as really vibe coding. To me “vibe coding” means you’re not really looking at the code it produces.

Yeah, I just wrote a blog post comment about how I enjoy using Copilot. But that’s when I explicitly ask it a question or give it a task. The auto complete is wrong more often than it’s right.

Probably doesn’t help that if it was tedious, boilerplate code I would have already explicitly asked it.

That’s not what the phrase “dark pattern” means.

It’s a switch. It’s clearly marked. It literally says “sponsored”.

Seems like clickbait. Wikipedia does not need actual visitors that badly.

I need my Omnissa Remote Client (VMWare) to work on Wayland with multiple monitors and I’d be good to go.

As it is, I have to use Windows for work.

Ubuntu didn’t work, but PopOS with Nvidia drivers built in works great.

It’s not a mistake until you admit it.

Oh my console.log messages are so much better than that now… (that I started telling copilot to add them for me).

Apparently you haven’t been to Reddit in awhile.

This is just an advertisement.

Are we not allowed to talk about an interesting intersection of advertising and politics?

You know this is a discussion board, right? If you didn’t want to discuss, why are you posting?

Sometimes you have different use cases. One beefy machine is likely more energy efficient. Many small machines allows reuse of old hardware.

we’re seeing an increase in the diagnosis of autism.

Absolutely.

We’re not seeing an increase in Autism

Not sure about that. It can be both.

putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem

They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.

LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.

But… That’s where you’d put this crap. Notepad had one job, and it did it well.

It’ll sometimes do dumb and/or redundant or too complicated shit. Pile up a couple of those and your codebase can get unmaintainable fast.

I find if you give it small chunks and keep an eye on it, it’s great.

I think one of my recent prompts was “Create a procedure that creates an example configuration file with placeholder values. If a config file doesn’t exist on start, give a warning and create the example config.”

It also works great as a replacement for an ORM.

I understand how to turn the results of a select statement into an update statement, but the AI does it a hell of a lot faster.

I find if you give it small enough chunks, it’s easy enough to review. And even if you do have to correct, it’s generally easier to correct than it would be to write it all by hand.