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tadfisheryesterday at 5:16 PM1 replyview on HN

Doing a tool call for autocomplete is not going to make coding agents faster.

I do think there is some merit in a tool that dumps all namespaces and reachable symbols so the agent can do its own autocomplete without a round-trip.


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jameshartyesterday at 8:59 PM

Doesn’t need to be a tool call.

As a human coder you don’t summon intellisense. It’s just popped up into your visual field as extra input - contextual cues.

You could force intellisense state into the context vector the LLM receives.

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