I’m on-board with exploring LLM and agent tooling to improve upon the whole endeavor of software development. But, I consistently find myself disabling Copilot/Claude/etc. completion and next edit prediction in Markdown files. This is the one way in which I’m “too cool” for the machines, the only area where I feel like I certainly know better than the little robot on my shoulder whispering probable next phrases in my ear.
I don’t want any help from the little slot machine of floating-point numbers embedded in my editor. Don’t tell me what I might wanna do or what I could do when it comes to writing, robot! 👴
Writing words, in a text editor, feels like the most creative and think-y activity of the coding regimen. It is a unique situation where I am doing actual invention, creating wholesale of a new cloth, building up from tabla rasa.
Which isn’t to imply that models and agents aren’t helpful for writing, generating ideas, and doing wholesale invention. I love starting with “bad ideas only” and models are superb at that! 😉