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Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:43PM (#22067524)
'Only' quoting: 'Serious visual noise'

'I think there are very real costs.'

First off all, "misuse" of autocomplete can be very annoying. Some autocomplete system autocompletes with you.

IN ORWELLS REALITY: It isn’t doing the quote matching to save on your typing, but to keep the scanner from providing the wrong tokens to the parser of a compiler that is running all the time while you are typing.

So... 'Human Interface' ? ^^