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Autofill Answers The Wrong Question
DeveloperExperience DX Post #1147 · source on Telegram

Autofill Answers The Wrong Question

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The top panel shows a dark code editor where the programmer has typed "for x=1,10 d" and an autocomplete menu is open. The suggestions shown are "DockWidgetPluginGuiInfo," "DateTime," "debug," and "delay," none of which obviously complete the intended loop structure. The lower panel shows the Futurama character Zapp Brannigan with the large overlay text "Autofill" and the subtitle "No need to thank me." The joke is that IDE completion can confidently interrupt with syntactically available but semantically useless guesses, adding friction instead of developer experience polish.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Autocomplete is useful right up until the symbol table proves it knows every API except the one you were mentally compiling.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Autocomplete is useful right up until the symbol table proves it knows every API except the one you were mentally compiling.

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