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Is fancy code completion really worth it ?

michaelkellett

Of credible AI horror stories I think this is about as bad as it gets !

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/researchers-uncover-critical-ai-ide-flaws-exposing-developers-to-data-theft-and-rce

I'm sticking with the "legacy" Keil IDE for C coding on ARM - it may be a little slower but at least I'm fairly sure that nothing gets into my code that I didn't put there !

MK

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  • in reply to colporteur

    I find it is always best to use what you know.

    If you try to learn the latest thing out, you spend all of your time as a just learning developer.

    Give me someone who knows what they are doing and have years of experience in understanding the tools they use.

  • in reply to colporteur

    I use vi too : )

    (Admittedly only for short pieces of code or edits).

    I can't imagine explaining to a non-tech person how vi is like MS Word, but no buttons to click on, and no icons, i.e. not even Teletext level. A bit like trying to explain that the Internet was text-only for some people too, until Netscape Navigator came along... and pictures were often created in text characters, because it took too long to transfer images, and there was nowhere to store them for long, apart from floppy disks (or print on fanfold paper!). My e-mail account storage limit was 150 kbytes at uni.. (that was for all emails combined : )

    Nowadays there's AI for vi (I've not tried it).

    I don't know if you've ever watched Halt and Catch Fire, but perhaps you might like it. It's fictional, but many elements are close to reality. I really enjoyed it.