A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now
@sop Honestly? Yeah. I'll admit; I have this feature enabled in my code editor. It's basically like this. For natural language documents, it's sufficiently annoying that I have to turn it off for markdown files, but even in code, it's very hit or miss. I think i'm going to just turn it off entirely, after seeing this, because genuinely, i agree. The completions in this video are not even really an exaggeration; it's genuinely that hyperactive and changes its mind constantly. It is fucking annoying.
@sop As much as it "maybe does help" or there is a placebo effect, at least in my case, I know i don't need it. Some environments force me to disable it; I do comply with those rules; and I can still code fine. I'm not a "vibe coder"; I'm not reliant on it. It's just been by go-to to have this specific tool for years, and it was never quite so obviously useless that I've urgently wanted to disable it. But this video did make me realize, that yes, it is annoying. Yeah, i'm probably not benefiting from it.
@sodiboo @sop there's also the possibility that all these recomendations you're reading is tripping you up and subconsciously change something you were about to write to something worse. it's insidious.
that and your brain can read pretty fast, and having long bad suggestions that you can't help but read every time you type a character is exhausting.
@Jessica @sodiboo funny enough, the only time I see e.g. Cody by Sourcegraph reliably give me good suggestions is when I'm writing comments, error messages and the such — and, at that point, I want my software to use *my* voice. I've *earned* that 
@sop
At least in #intellij you can set the "suggestion strength" where it only shows suggestions when it is "confident enough" which works uqite well imho. For code, only for code though. #ai
@Jessica @sodiboo
@rugk my workplace doesn't pay for the intellij AI (we bought into the sourcegraph ecosystem; tbf, their code search IS really good) but I'll be on the lookout for that one if that ever changes