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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.

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?