How to Improve Code Suggestions With AI-Powered Development Tools

This guide discusses improving code suggestions from AI tools, addressing current inadequacies and potential pathways for enhancement. It highlights the limitations of current LLM suggestions and emphasizes the importance of context in generating accurate and relevant code snippets. Strategies to enhance code suggestions include providing clear instructions, utilizing system messages, automated filtering of suggestions, leveraging context more effectively, exploring multiple LLMs, fine-tuning existing LLMs, and domain-adaptive continued pre-training. The article concludes by emphasizing the shared responsibility between tool creators and developers in advancing these systems for better code quality, user experience, and accessibility in software development.