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		simianwords 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cursor 1.7 What’s wrong with autocompleting the prompt? There exists entropy even in the English language and especially in the prompts we feed to the llms. If I write something like “fix the ab..” and it autocompletes to AbstractBeanFactory based on the context, isn’t it useful?

yunwal 13 days ago [–]

Agreed with your point, but entropy is almost the opposite of what you wanted to express here (which is that the English language is compressible).

simianwords 13 days ago | [–]

Yes agreed maybe compressibility was the right term. (Opposite of high entropy)

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