VSCode autofill things

Recently in May 2025 I came back to extensively using Visual Studio Code to finally get this site a bit more functional and easy to update. Frankly I gotta say that VSCode, especially after learning some basic tricks, is really nice to use. It boots up quickly, it never lost any of my progress after exiting and Prettier extension almost always add a fair amount of elegant whitespaces.

One of key features that Microsoft pushes really hard in VSCode are the autofill (that shows up all the time anytime I type) and Copilot chat that is easier to ignore and decently helpful. To be completely honest, even though I am aware that any use of AI features are not exactly fair or environmentally friendly, but hell I'm weak, that saves so much time of plowing through all sorts of documentations and forums, let alone typing entire tags and classes, although closing up html tags is not precise yet. I mean no wonder why so many people crave AI, when it starts to be useful, there's no going back.

I personally just hope those autocompletion hints and purely technical requests are not as energy demanding as generating stupid media slop.

For those whose never used VSCode, by default the autofill appears almost instantaneously as a slightly tinted hint text when next to the place you type something and you can accept it by clickink Tab or reject it by clicking anything else.

That being said, here are some hints of the VSCode autofill that are a bit surprising and less than useful: