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Re:Zed AI by simonw on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:35PM (#41303225)
What programming languages do you mostly work in?

I've been wondering if the benefits of AI-autocomplete are more material to people who work in languages like Python and JavaScript that are harder to provide IDE-based autocomplete for.

If you're a Java or TypeScript developer maybe the impact is reduced because you already have great autocomplete by default.

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Re:Zed AI by cjonas on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @03:41PM (#41303285)
I think typescript benefits even more than JavaScript because the type signatures add so much context. After defining the types and signatures copilot will often complete the body within a few changes of perfect
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Re:Zed AI by zackproser on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @07:07PM (#41305000)
Yeah +1, the current top LLMs do pretty well with TypeScript
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