Ask HN: Does anyone still use code snippets?

Huh... well, now that you mention it I realize my most common "type bit and have it expand" snippets are ones I made for certain temporary stacktrace/debug statements. I guess as a project matures you spend more time debugging or modifying what's already there. Even when those modifications are something the IDE helps with, that process is often triggered differently, highlighting existing text and using a refactoring menu/shortcut.

When I am working on new stuff... Well, my typing is mostly on autopilot, I use the time to think about what I'm going to put next, or else I've reached a spot where I would be making decisions anyway, e.g. naming a method.

I still use snippets and, since I wholly reject generative AI from my life, I don't see it changing anytime soon.

I have a snippet I religiously use to scaffold the go error log + return. I’d say the amount of snippets I use are less, and maybe eventually I will use none. But with that one I want predictability. I don’t want to have to review every error statement as I build.

I could never get the hang of snippets, too much to learn and too inflexible. Copilot for life.

In Visual Studio for C#, ctor creates a constructor. I use that one all the time. Other than that, no.