Agentic flows will soon overtake auto-complete. Models like claude sonnet 3.5 were already good enough, albeit requiring the user to actively limit context length.
Most recently, gemini 2.5 pro makes the agentic workflow usable, and how!
Most recently, gemini 2.5 pro makes the agentic workflow usable, and how!
No sane organization will accept anything less than forcing SWEs to use these tools moving forward. The details might differ and some will delay because "IP", but they'll all converge very quickly.
Not to say there's no joy in doing it the old-fashioned way on your own time :)
I've seen the light!