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Tabnine

Hey everyone, I would like to share an amazing productivity tool I have been using and I could say it made difference in the way I code.

TLDR;
Extention Name : Tabnine
VSCode Marketplace : Tabnine
Github Repo: Repo

Note: Tabnine is available for other code editors as well, do check out their website for more details

Post Overview:

Overview
Installing Tabnine
Kite vs Tabnine

Overview

Honestly, I have been a productivity freak from a long time, I have tried many different extensions in vscode but recently I came across Tabnine which steals the show.
With such amazing improvements in the field of Artificial Intelligence, this is one of the product that uses AI to help developers.

Example suggestion made by Tabnine

Installing Tabnine

It's just installing the extension from vscode market place.

Kite vs Tabnine

Kite is another AI assistant which helps us code faster. Both Tabnine and Kite are doing a great job, here are few pointers which I found that would on using both for sometime.

Installtion

Installation of Kite is not as simple as Tabnine, because we have to install external application, create account and then install extention in our preferred text editor, there is an option which install extensions automatically in supported editors with a single click on the installed application.

JavaScript suggestions

Here say we want to add another <View> element in the javascript file, you can see how both of them are giving out suggestions. With kite you get two suggestions when you type <Vi and with Tabnine you get five suggestions by typing <V out of which couple of them actually detects the style I want to use.

Kite JS suggestions

Tabnine JS suggestions

Python suggestions

This is a django project, say I want to add a new attribute to a model class. In kite we get couple of suggestions, but as a note I wanted to say is kite didn't suggest variable names, while Tabnine suggested variable names.

Kite python suggestions

Tabnine python suggestions

RAM usage

Both use almost same amount of RAM, these are snapshots taken when the same project folder is running in visual studio code.
The following screen captures are taken in Activity Monitor in Mac.

Kite RAM usage