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MixedCursor · 12 Aug 2025

So never let it generate code, but the autocomplete is absolutely killer

ericmcer on Hacker News

ripping about 200 LoC out

In the thread “Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context”, replying to this comment

Helped: Autocomplete for syntax in unfamiliar languages.

Got in the way: Generated code fixed non-broken issues.

… Ended up ripping about 200 LoC out because what Claude "fixed" wasn't even broken. So never let it generate code, but the autocomplete is absolutely killer. If you understand how to code in 2+ languages you can make assumptions about how to do things in many others and let the AI autofill the syntax in. …