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IntelliSense
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2008–2024), in 11 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Autocomplete and IntelliSense are distracting while typingUnreviewed
20082026- Autocomplete and IntelliSense UX is extremely distracting to the author2024-12-25
- Autocomplete suggestions interrupt thinking and force coding in awkward ways2022-09-23
- Autocompletion freezes, gets confused, or stops working, so users disable it2021-03-31
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Suggestions pop up too slowly and are unhelpful, often offering irrelevant options2024-12-25
- Autocomplete and IntelliSense UX is extremely distracting to the author2024-12-25
- Renaming variables in C++ gets things wrong, so the user doesn't trust it2023-10-12
- IntelliSense becomes unusably slow in projects that use modules2023-07-11
- Programmer must guess what arrow keys will do because the AI behavior is unpredictable2022-10-01
- Autocomplete suggestions interrupt thinking and force coding in awkward ways2022-09-23
- Autocompletion freezes, gets confused, or stops working, so users disable it2021-03-31
- Poorly implemented completion gets in the way and makes input behave unpredictably2020-06-10
- Takes 10+ seconds to jump to definition and often shows many similar matches2019-12-21
- Vim keys don't work for navigating IntelliSense completion choices; must use arrow keys2019-03-17
- Tooltips for 23 constructors with poorly named params are too tedious to scroll through2013-07-15
- Autocomplete popup is distracting and slow2008-07-19