Great, readable paper by Romain Robbes and Michele Lanza: Improving Code Completion with Program History
It's a quantitative analysis of code completion tools, covering both static and dynamically typed languages!
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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?
