I've seen people claiming - with a straight face - that mechanical refactoring is a good use-case for LLM-based tools.
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@gabrielesvelto and ok, but what is the *actual* scenario you're imagining? because my coding tasks go as such when I use LLMs:
1. I have 10-15 classes that need to change the way we do X from Y to Z
2. I prompt the LLM, telling it "change A,B,C so that they use Z instead of Y"
3. I review the code, fixing mistakes as I see them
1/x because post length limits@gabrielesvelto
The code change is frankly pretty simple, we're talking of stuff on the level of "migrate Book so instead of using function calls, uses annotations for ABC, update the call sites", we're not talking about "change this complex piece of code so that it does complex ABC in another complex XYZ way". The realm of errors is "I know that Foo doesn't work well by itself and needs extra care" -
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The code change is frankly pretty simple, we're talking of stuff on the level of "migrate Book so instead of using function calls, uses annotations for ABC, update the call sites", we're not talking about "change this complex piece of code so that it does complex ABC in another complex XYZ way". The realm of errors is "I know that Foo doesn't work well by itself and needs extra care"@gabrielesvelto anything that goes over the bar of "this is stupid but boring" goes into the "I'll do it by hand because if anything I need to learn how it works before touching it"
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