Doing a tool call for autocomplete is not going to make coding agents faster.

I do think there is some merit in a tool that dumps all namespaces and reachable symbols so the agent can do its own autocomplete without a round-trip.

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jameshart 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Doesn’t need to be a tool call.

As a human coder you don’t summon intellisense. It’s just popped up into your visual field as extra input - contextual cues.

You could force intellisense state into the context vector the LLM receives.

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foota an hour ago | parent [-]

Not really, because the LLM loop doesn't have the ability to get updates from the agent live. It would have to somehow be integrated all the way down the stack.

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		LLMs can have whatever abilities we build for them. The fact we currently start their context out with a static prompt which we keep feeding in on every iteration of the token prediction loop is a choice. We don’t have to keep doing that if there are other options available.