Has anyone used the Xcode AI coding assistant called CodeNext?
It is a free tool and can be downloaded at codenext.ai.
It autocompletes code, has a chat function, and can use any AI model which is a cool feature.
Curious to know your thoughts and what other tools you've used.
It's only free if you bring your own API keys, so you're still paying someone somewhere for something.
I'm quite happy with the autocomplete built into Xcode. It's pretty good at what it does.
I have real reservations about using LLMs (it's not AI) to write code for me, because I need to read what it's provided and confirm that's what I need my app to do. It's much easier to understand code when you write it yourself because you know what you want it to do. I'm not overly convinced by the demos on the site.
I have no doubt it might be useful at some point but right now I just cannot trust an LLM to write the right code for me. (And I'm not going to be used as the source material to improve someone else's software by having to correct it when it gets something wrong.)