I do this as well. I have inline suggestions enabled with supermaven (I like the tiny, short, fast suggestions it creates), but otherwise I’m really using LLMs to validate ideas, not actually generate code.
I find supermaven helps keep me on track because its suggestions are often in line with where I was going, rather than branching off into huge snippets of slightly related boilerplate. That’s extremely distracting.
Yes! This is the other point is that it is also just distracting as you are thinking through a hard problem to have code just popping up which you inevitably end up reading even if you know what you planned to write.
Just had a glimpse at supermaven and not sure why that would be better, the site suggest it is a faster copilot.
It’s better for me because the suggestions are much faster and typically more brief and useful. However, I haven’t used copilot for quite a while, so it might be similar these days. I recall it having very verbose, tangential suggestions.
I find supermaven helps keep me on track because its suggestions are often in line with where I was going, rather than branching off into huge snippets of slightly related boilerplate. That’s extremely distracting.