Playing with VS Code also reminds me how overloaded the tab key can be. It might do indentation, or LSP completion, or snippet completion, or Copilot completion.
In Emacs I've configured these operations on separate keys (e.g. yasnippet on SPC) which is less surprising.
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Should code completion offer private methods/fields?
If the user chooses a private method, you can offer a quickfix to change its visibility. It's clutter though.
I frequently find myself wanting fields that I haven't exposed yet, and frustrated that the IDE hides them.
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Copilot doesn't offer a way of disabling completion inside comments. People have discovered a comical workaround: swearing in the comment!
Generated Code Generates Overconfident Coders: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-180/
A study of programmers found that using a LLM for completion produced buggier code but users were more confident in it.
I wonder if this generalises to other completion techniques?
