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AI's role in coding may be limited to advanced autocomplete

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The author argues that while agentic coding is often touted as the future, current AI capabilities are largely advanced autocomplete. They suggest that once the initial excitement fades and operational costs become apparent, AI's role in software development will likely be limited to enhancing predictive autocompletion for predictable tasks like boilerplate code generation. AI

IMPACT Suggests AI's practical impact on coding may be less revolutionary than currently hyped, focusing on incremental improvements.

RANK_REASON Opinion piece from a named individual on the future of AI in software development.

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AI's role in coding may be limited to advanced autocomplete

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Is agentic coding the future of software development? @glyph Yes, but also very much no. Current AI is super advanced autocomplete. Autocomplete has its place –

    Is agentic coding the future of software development? @glyph Yes, but also very much no. Current AI is super advanced autocomplete. Autocomplete has its place – for example, boilerplate stuff that is easily predictable. NetBeans already autocompletes my constructor methods based …

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