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throwaway7783today at 2:33 AM1 replyview on HN

This has happened to me too. Claude has stopped and said on occasions "this is a big refactor, and will affect UI as well. Do you want me to do it?"


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ryandraketoday at 4:26 AM

I recently asked Claude to make some kind of simple data structure and it responded with something like "You already have an abstraction very similar to this in SourceCodeAbc.cpp line 123. It would be trivial to refactor this class to be more generic. Should I?" I was pretty blown away. It was like a first glimpse of an LLM play-acting as someone more senior and thoughtful than the usual "cocaine-fueled intern."