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roywigginstoday at 4:20 AM1 replyview on HN

> “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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Hfuffzehntoday at 11:02 AM

The first time I was impressed by AI coding was when I pointed it at some switch case monster code and told it to replace it with a strategy pattern.

And it did just fine.

So no matter what you think about vibe coding, using AI for these slightly more complicated use cases is genuinely useful.