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> A 10 minute refactoring

That's when you learn Vim, Emacs, and/or grep, because I'm assuming that's mostly variable renaming and a few function signature changes. I can't see anything more complicated, that I'd trust an LLM with.



I'm a Helix user, and used Vim for over 10 years beforehand. I'm no stranger to macros, multiple cursors, codebase-wide sed, etc. I still use those when possible, because they're easier, cheaper, and faster. Some refactors are simply faster and easier with an LLM, though, because the LSP doesn't have a function for it, and it's a pattern that the LLM can handle but doesn't exactly match in each invocation. And you shouldn't ever trust the LLM. You have to review all its changes each time.




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