Machine Learning writes half of my Code
An Introduction to Tabnine
In my last semester I took our Software Development capstone course. It teaches agile development practices and incorporates those practices into a team project. During long nights of pair programming on Discord I noticed someone in my group basically had an autocompleter writing code for him. Previous autocompleters I've been aware of and used really only completed one word at a time.
Anyway, I asked him about it and he said that it's a paid vim plugin (BIG smh) that he got access to for free a few years ago when it started. I just dropped it after that, because I wasn't really interested in paying for an autocompleter to use in free software (rofl).
A few weeks later he told me that it was free along. They had plans to make it paid, but I guess they didn't. He told me it was called Tabnine, and it uses machine learning to write whole lines of code.
I use Emacs, so I added a quick use-package line and went to town. I have to say I'm not dissappointed. This thing not only writes lines of code, but it also writes nearly whole english sentences (something I discovered by starting this blog). I didn't look too far into it, but I'm pretty sure it learns from every file in the root directory of a project, so this thing is pretty deadly.
If you're just using an out-of-the-box autocompleter like Company or something, I highly reccommend checking out Tabnine.
Further Reading
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