I don't personally have it, but I am using webstorm 2024.1 beta that has line generation. This is simply tab to complete the generated line, escape to remove the gen and focus on intellisence.

I won't lie, the line gen is crap. I'd rather use my self hosted RefactAI docker but the plugin isn't compatible for 2024.1 yet

[–] EvokerKing@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The conversational part is really good though. I love that it has access to my code without having to paste it so I can just say "on line 274" or something. It's apparently not good at generating code but if you were using it for that you should learn how to code. But it's really good at fixing errors and issues.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't use chat, as it never really have been more than a digital rubber ducky for me.

And it's not really generating lots of code. Most of the time it's just generating constructors/factory functions, or something easy like summing a vector of integers.

My philosophy is that my brain comes first, if the AI did what I was thinking of, then press tab. I ain't debugging a AI made function for two hours when I can make it in an hour

[–] kassuro@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's the same way for me. I don't know if my work is this trivial or I'm just "good enough" at it, but it takes me much longer to prompt the chat to get what I want than it takes me to just write it myself.

I honestly kinda feel like I'm using this ai stuff wrong, but outside of generating some basic unit tests and a little better auto complete it feels kinda useless in my day to day work.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. It's really just """smarter""" auto complete. Quite good at pattern completion like simple constructors or switch cases with one change.

I get the same feeling of using it wrong, but I mostly think it's AI bros chilling the tech too much. Or that I am a boomer

[–] kassuro@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well I hope it's ai bros haha.

I kinda feel sad about this whole ai tooling. For me programming was always more like art. But this gets lost now with all the ai stuff.

I sound like an old man yelling at clouds.