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To makeitdouble's point, how is this any different with an LLM provided solution? What confidence do you have that isn't also beginning an unlimited game of bug testing whack-a-mole?

My confidence in LLMs is not that high and I use Claude a lot. The limitations are very apparent very quickly. They're great for simple refactors and doing some busy work, but if you're refactoring something you're too afraid to do by hand then I fear you've simply deferred responsibility to the LLM - assuming it will understand the code better than you do, which seems foolhardy.



Especially with refactoring, it tends to be tedious and repetitive work that is slightly too complicated for a (regex) search replace.

A lot of repetitive slight variations on the same easy to describe change sounds pretty good to ask an LLM to do quickly.




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