{"slug": "what-happened-to-tab-autocomplete", "title": "What happened to tab autocomplete?", "summary": "Developers continue to rely on LSP-based tab autocomplete for deterministic and reliable code completion, despite the rise of agentic programming tools. Many programmers avoid AI-powered autocomplete features like Copilot or Supermaven, citing annoyance and concerns about developing a dependency that slows their own coding ability.", "body_md": "Does anyone still use them? Now that agentic programming software are available.\n\nnot sure if you mean LSP or copilot-style autocomple, but I still use the LSP autocomplete. It's deterministic, reliable and useful. If you mean copilot-style autocomplete, I don't like it or use it. I tried supermaven in summer 2024/2025 for a couple of months, but ultimately found it more annoying than useful. What mostly discouraged me was the worry that I might develop [The Copilot Pause](https://thomasvogelaar.me/posts/the-copilot-pause/)\n\n(I do use LLMs/agents/whatever they're called this week, but i usually have it work on some support tooling, sometimes migrations/refactors in the background while i continue working on whatever I was working on.)\n\nYes of course. Why would I stop using it when programming?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-happened-to-tab-autocomplete", "canonical_source": "https://lobste.rs/s/humg0y/what_happened_tab_autocomplete", "published_at": "2026-06-04 09:32:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-04 10:49:50.299851+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "large-language-models", "generative-ai", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["LSP", "Supermaven", "Copilot", "Thomas Vogelaar"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-happened-to-tab-autocomplete", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-happened-to-tab-autocomplete.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-happened-to-tab-autocomplete.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-happened-to-tab-autocomplete.jsonld"}}