The first thing I noticed is that LLM-powered autocomplete was wildly accurate. It seemed like it “knew” what I wanted to do next at every turn. Due to my discomfort with AI, I just stuck with autocomplete for a while. And, honestly, if I stuck with just using autocomplete it would still have been a massive level up. As a former skeptic, I am a wildly more productive developer with AI tooling. I let my aversion to the hype train cause me to miss out on those productivity gains for too long. I hope you don’t make the same mistake.
I think this is the type of underreported side of programming with AI. it IS helping.
Quote Citation: pcloadletter.dev, “AI hype is excessive, but its productivity gains are real”, 2025-10-19, https://www.pcloadletter.dev/blog/ai-hype-and-productivity/