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I wish they would send me an invite. I really want to use it.

Thesis: A truly enlightened company would let you use this in interviews.

I was told from Kite that invites are going to roll out quickly now so check your inbox soon!

Thesis-2: A truly clever company would tell you to use this on a language you've never used before in an interview hahaha

Now, this is an exciting development of tooling. This could bootstrap next generation of tools that would make huge increase in software complexity actually manageable.

I like that it shows you code examples (I use GitHub code search a lot). Another idea would be to automatically show you the code of function you are calling, so you can quickly verify your assumptions (sync/async, error handling, return values).

I don't do much Python nowadays, but I'm very excited about Kite.

I do a lot of Python and all I can say is wow, it's so handy. It's way better than any other hovering UI suggestion/completion plugins I've used. If it supports type hinting in Python then you could get arg types, return values, etc.

They plan on adding more languages I believe so keep an eye out for yours.

I really like the way it displays the documentation/suggestions. I would much rather have that than the floating boxes i see in VSCode right now, does anyone know if it's possible to get this layout style via plugins?
How does one get an invite?
Via email, if you signed up on www.kite.com you'll get an email soon with details.