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MixedCursor · 7 May 2026

I turn it off when I'm writing prose or need to actually think deeply

igregoryca on Hacker News

In the thread “Appearing productive in the workplace”, replying to this comment

Helped: Guessing repetitive changes and self-correcting via LSP errors.

Got in the way: Interferes with writing prose and deep thinking.

… The intelligent autocomplete is just another tool to reduce typing when the next change is easy to guess. Oh, and I turn it off when I'm writing prose or need to actually think deeply. Then it really does hurt more then help. …