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eliyesterday at 11:38 PM1 replyview on HN

Makes sense as part of a larger coding workflow, especially if it’s fast. Using a trillion parameter model to figure out how to call a targeted edit tool or generate a commit message is a waste. Also narrow tasks like “make the background darker” or “rename this function and update callers”


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roywigginstoday at 4:20 AM

> “rename this function and update callers”

I'm old enough to remember when IDEs could do this without needing a couple gigabytes of matrices to do it

(LLMs are great for anything even slightly more complicated ofc)

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