Code analysis and suggestion tools in many professional IDEs are not powered by LLMs, in the IDEs I use, there’s an available LLM that I’ve disabled the plugin for (and never paid for so it did nothing anyways). LLMs are simply too slow for the kind of code completion and recommendation algorithms used by IDEs and so using them is not “using genAI”
Uh… Sorry but no, LLMs are definitely fast enough. It works just like auto complete, except sometimes it’s a genius that pulls the next few lines you were about to write out of the ether, and sometimes it makes up a library to do something you never asked for
Mostly it works about as well as code completion software, but it’ll name variables much better
Code analysis and suggestion tools in many professional IDEs are not powered by LLMs, in the IDEs I use, there’s an available LLM that I’ve disabled the plugin for (and never paid for so it did nothing anyways). LLMs are simply too slow for the kind of code completion and recommendation algorithms used by IDEs and so using them is not “using genAI”
Uh… Sorry but no, LLMs are definitely fast enough. It works just like auto complete, except sometimes it’s a genius that pulls the next few lines you were about to write out of the ether, and sometimes it makes up a library to do something you never asked for
Mostly it works about as well as code completion software, but it’ll name variables much better