The best code autocompletes, according to hackers
4 code autocompletes recommended in Hacker News comments over the past year, ranked by how many separate people recommend each one.
All code autocompletes
- Sweep 1.5BA small open-weights model for predicting your next edit, praised for fast local responses and for beating larger models on this task. Critics say its suggestions are often overeager and sometimes delete needed code.28recommend
- SupermavenFast, smart tab autocomplete that works well in editors like Neovim and PyCharm; critics say Cursor's purchase effectively killed it.10recommend
- Cursor TabPeople recommend Cursor Tab as the best code autocomplete they have used, with predictions that feel unusually accurate across edits. No critic in the discussions raised a recurring complaint.9recommend
- Zeta 2 by Zed IndustriesFree open-weights autocomplete model from Zed that runs locally, so code stays on your machine. One critic finds it conservative, rarely proposing more than a few obvious lines.6recommend