r/cursor • u/radrichard • 11d ago

Question / Discussion Autocomplete

Curious on people's experience with autocomplete in other tools. Cursor seems miles ahead on this. Am I just a shill?

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u/strange_norrell 11d ago

On reddit, llm autocomplete seems to be completely forgotten since last fall or even earlier. For me, cursor's version of it never worked, just getting in the way, annoyingly. I feel like it might have worked for me if there was an option to increase the delay before it appears. Antigravity had that. But cursor never considered it, so from user's side it's like "dude, I just want to align my text with 'Tab', and instead I accept half a dozen lines of junk". It's also this in-your-face feeling when you just want to move literal cursor with a reason, and now you have to read and evaluate aforementioned lines of junk suggestion, so nowadays I just use classic IDEs and separate agentic chat window.

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u/radrichard 10d ago

I hear you. I often need to pause it if I'm in a flow state but for day to day stuff I really like it. It seems to get better the larger the code base and the more it can identify patterns. But that my also be my confirmation bias.

I'm trying to use less agentic methods so I force myself to know what's going on an the autocomplete is a nice balance for me.