I've seen a couple code assistant AI demos that mostly showed, to me, how woefully under-served many programmers are with their development environments.
Like, I taught my editor to produce the frame code for unit tests for a component, with all the right names, appropriate capitalization, and so on decades ago. Ditto for my common idioms. LSP has amplified that. Context aware suggestions are already my norm.
Steve Downey
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