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What AI coding assistant are you using and is it actually useful? - Zero Two - 06-21-2026
Genuinely curious what tools people are using day-to-day for coding assistance and whether they've actually changed how you work.
My current setup is Claude via API routed through a couple of editor extensions, and I drop into the web interface when I want to think through something architectural. For pure autocomplete I've tried Copilot and Supermaven. Supermaven is faster and less intrusive for completions, Copilot is better when you want it to write a whole function from a comment.
Honest assessment: autocomplete saves maybe 10-20 minutes a day on boilerplate. The real value for me is the conversational loop for debugging unfamiliar errors and researching libraries I don't know well. Less useful for anything requiring deep context of a large codebase.
What are you using? And is there a use case where you've found it genuinely changes the workflow rather than just being a slightly smarter autocomplete?