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The difference between AI as autocomplete and vibe coding couldn't be bigger. It's like the difference between having your phone with you on a trip somewhere to take pictures with, and just watching a video of the place on your phone at home.

Autocomplete speeds up code generation by an order of magnitude, easily, with no real downside when used by experienced devs. Vibe coding on the other hand completely replaces the programmer and causes lots of new issues.

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> Autocomplete speeds up code generation by an order of magnitude, easily, with no real downside when used by experienced devs

Strongly disagree. Autocomplete thinks slower than I do, so if I want to try and take advantage of it I have to slow myself down a bunch

Instead of just writing a function, I write a line or two, wait to see what the auto complete suggests, read it, understand it, often realize it is wrong and then keep typing. Then it suggests something else, rinse, repeat

I get negative value from it and turned it off eventually. At least intellisense gives instant suggestions ...

Strongly disagree. The only instance where autocomplete helped me was a situation where I would have required macros, so I typed out the first 3 cases manually and had autocomplete generate the next 20.

In all other cases, autocomplete was never faster than writing it myself.

Full code generation, where you can step away from the computer for 20 minutes, does save me time.

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