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NoCursor, Claude · 29 Sep 2025

I found that I'd spend more time reading the ai generated autocomplete that pops up

fusslo on Hacker News

In the thread “Write the damn code”

Helped: Refactoring tasks were powerful.

Got in the way: Autocomplete caused focus loss and accidental code insertion.

… First, I had to rebind the auto-insert from TAB to ctrl+space because I would try tabbing code over and blamo: lines inserted, resulting in more work deleting them. Second, I found that I'd spend more time reading the ai generated autocomplete that pops up. It would pop up, I'd shift focus to read what it generated, decide if it's what I want, then try to remember what the hell I was typing. …