Listen "#70: Dipping Our Toes in Predictive Code Completion"
Episode Synopsis
The trio is back from celebrating America to talk about Apple's horribly named "predictive code completion" in Xcode 16. Kotaro tries to use it with some interesting results and we compare Apple's current implementation with other similar products like Microsoft's Intellicode and contrast it with something like Copilot or Apple's forthcoming Swift Assist product. We also engage in an interesting discussion about when you should or should not use these code generation tools.
## Topics Discussed:
- Introductions
- Kotaro installs macOS 15 beta
- Kotaro tries “predictive code completion” in Xcode 16
- Steve’s experience with Intellicode in Visual Studio
- DocC generation with Copilot in VS Code
- Generating unit tests with Copilot
- When and when not to use these tools?
- Future experiments
- Wrap-up
- PhillyCocoa.org
- One More Thing
- AzamSharp.school
Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.
## Topics Discussed:
- Introductions
- Kotaro installs macOS 15 beta
- Kotaro tries “predictive code completion” in Xcode 16
- Steve’s experience with Intellicode in Visual Studio
- DocC generation with Copilot in VS Code
- Generating unit tests with Copilot
- When and when not to use these tools?
- Future experiments
- Wrap-up
- PhillyCocoa.org
- One More Thing
- AzamSharp.school
Intro music: "When I Hit the Floor", © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.
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