Of all the AI aids, autocomplete is my least favourite, at least from my experience with Cursor anyway.
It takes me longer to review the autocomplete (I ain't yoloing it in) than it would have done to type the damn thing out. Loving Cursor's cmd+k workflow though, very productive.
It really depends on what you're using the code for. AI generated code is great for quick and dirty stuff you're going to throw away.
For example yesterday I wanted to read a small csv and dump the contents of the second column of each row into a separate text file. I took a quick glance at the AI generated python code and just ran it.
Saved me maybe 10 minutes of typing the code myself. Small and trivial win for AI, but it's still useful.
I do agree for production code it might turn out to be a net negative since AI is pretty good at producing code that looks fine but has subtle problems.
How did you prompt the code generation? With natural language or by beginning to write the code yourself? If the former, that is exactly what I am praising.
It takes me longer to review the autocomplete (I ain't yoloing it in) than it would have done to type the damn thing out. Loving Cursor's cmd+k workflow though, very productive.