Comment by kibibu
My experience is that the "fancy autocomplete" is a focus destroyer.
I know what function I want to write, start writing it, and then bam! The screen fills with ghost text that may partly be what I want but probably not quit.
Focus shifts from writing to code review. I wrest my attention back to the task at hand, type some more, and bam! New ghost text to distract me.
Ever had the misfortune of having a conversation with a sentence-finisher? Feels like that.
Perhaps I need to bind to a hot key instead of using the default always-on setting.
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I suspect people using the agentic approaches skip this entirely and therefore have a more pleasant experience overall.
It's fascinating how differently people's brains work.
Autocomplete is a total focus destroyer for me when it comes to text, e.g. when writing a design document. When I'm editing code, it sometimes trips me up (hitting tab to indent but end up accepting a suggestion instead), but without destroying my focus.
I believe your reported experience, but mine (and presumably many others') is different.