Autocompletely Broken

I just updated all my devices to the recently released most recent Apple operating systems. After doing so, I had to download Xcode 16 as the previous version wasn't compatible anymore.

After opening the IDE for the first time, Xcode asked me what additional SDKs to install. For obvious reasons, I need to have an iOS 18 SDK at hand, but it was an other little checkbox that caught my attention:

Predictive Code Completion Model. Let's not call it AI bullshit, but ✨AI Bullshit✨. They market it as "improved Swift Code Completion". I've never been a fan of GitHub's AI bullshit (some call it Copilot), instead I enjoy writing boilerplate code from time to time (Don't tell anyone, it's a dirty little secret).

It's not a burden, it's just part of the job. If you want to do things right, there are no shortcuts, they say. Except Silicon Valley Capitalism Bros and Marketing: They lie to you that AI is the magic shortcut tool.

I like to think. Even though it can be very frusting, I like to understand a problem and think about how to solve it. When using AI, you get presented different recipes and you can read them and choose them, but you don't solve the problem, as you don't understand it. So the only thing you learn when using AI is to read.

I've been happy with the existing code completion, so no AI for me, thank you.