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Re:Visual Studio IntelliCode by vanderZwan on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @07:16AM (#20093850)
That sounds kind of comparable to one of the reasons why gesture interfaces (the waving-your-hands-in-the-air type) have such a hard time catching on: no haptic feedback and not a reliable enough success rate compared to real buttons, or even touchscreens. It doesn't matter if it's 99.9% accurate, it's the 0.1% failure rate that will prevent adoption.

Reliability and predictability matters a lot in interface design

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Re:Visual Studio IntelliCode by nickjj on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:04AM (#20094135)
> It doesn't matter if it's 99.9% accurate, it's the 0.1% failure rate that will prevent adoption.

Perfectly said. I've always thought the same way. Basically, I'd rather not use a "pretty good" auto complete, because "pretty good" usually means it does more harm than good (where harm is providing wrong results or doing anything that slows me down overall).

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Re:Visual Studio IntelliCode by zaphar on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:34AM (#20094331)
See: Every phones autocorrect and how much annoyance they cause.
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Re:Visual Studio IntelliCode by anoncake on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:02PM (#20096951)
Especially when a common word is missing in the dictionary for some ducking reason.
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