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Comment by suncemoje | Hacker News Reader

Isn't tab completion long dead?

Do you have a point? The whole package is compelling like I already said. Nobody has replicated it but everyone likes to ask what is the value but never share a compelling competing product. I am not Boris so I still write some code or make manual tweaks, autocomplete is nice.

Edit: I realize my question is maybe harsh but I think it’s valid for these drive by comments that drop a question like “isn’t tab completion dead?” Without any other substance it is a huge detractor to the comment quality of the site. At least add more substance or opinion.

All good, no offense from my side, apologies for the disturbance if it caused any. Generally would have just been curious if people still use tab completion much? Virtually all people I know have switched to Claude Code or Codex. I also read recently that Boris Cherny (CC creator) deleted his IDE. Of course that's marketing, but it shows the current state quite directly. So I'm wondering what your dev workflow looks like? Any why/when you use tab completion instead of coding agents.

No issues here but I think it helps to add a few thoughts to continue the dialogue.

I think it’s largely shaped by the type of work you are doing and I am not sold on the idea that we are at a point of never writing code. I leverage these tools a lot and there is still nuanced mistakes LLMs make that I have to intercept. I am still in the code at least for now. Other than my friends that work in startups I have not seen too much others delete their IDE and not have any touch on the code.

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