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Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by veli_joza on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:55AM (#13929413)
Now, this is an exciting development of tooling. This could bootstrap next generation of tools that would make huge increase in software complexity actually manageable.

I like that it shows you code examples (I use GitHub code search a lot). Another idea would be to automatically show you the code of function you are calling, so you can quickly verify your assumptions (sync/async, error handling, return values).

I don't do much Python nowadays, but I'm very excited about Kite.

Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by mpicard on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:39AM (#13938177)
I do a lot of Python and all I can say is wow, it's so handy. It's way better than any other hovering UI suggestion/completion plugins I've used. If it supports type hinting in Python then you could get arg types, return values, etc.

They plan on adding more languages I believe so keep an eye out for yours.

Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by startupdiscuss on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:39PM (#13926020)
I wish they would send me an invite. I really want to use it.

Thesis: A truly enlightened company would let you use this in interviews.

Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by mpicard on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @05:36PM (#13926490)
I was told from Kite that invites are going to roll out quickly now so check your inbox soon!

Thesis-2: A truly clever company would tell you to use this on a language you've never used before in an interview hahaha

Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by arussellsaw on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @08:30AM (#13930342)
I really like the way it displays the documentation/suggestions. I would much rather have that than the floating boxes i see in VSCode right now, does anyone know if it's possible to get this layout style via plugins?
Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by jMyles on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @10:50PM (#13937078)
How does one get an invite?
Re:Preview of Kite, the AI pair programmer by mpicard on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:36AM (#13938170)
Via email, if you signed up on www.kite.com you'll get an email soon with details.