> changing a commonly used fn to take a locale parameter
I have to ask, is this the sort of thing people use agents/AI for?
Because I'd probably reach for sed or awk.
I have to ask, is this the sort of thing people use agents/AI for?
Because I'd probably reach for sed or awk.
Are they perfect? Far from it. But it's more comprehensive. Additionally simple refactors like this are insanely fast to review and so it's really easy to spot a bad change or etc. Plus i'm in Rust so it's typed very heavily.
In a lot of scenarios i'd prefer an AST grep over an LSP rename, but hat also doesn't cover the docs/comments/etc.
What a ridiculously backwards approach.
We were supposed to get agents who could use human tooling. Instead we are apparently told to write interfaces for this stumbling expensive mess to use.
Maybe, just maybe, if the human can know to, and use, the AST tool fine, the problem is not the tool but the agent.
And an agent can learn to use sg with a skill too. (Or they can use sed)
The issue is, at every point you do a replace, you need to verify if it was the right thing to do or if it was a false positive.
If you are doing this manually, there's the time to craft the sed or sg query, then for each replacement you need to check it. If there are dozens, that's probably okay. If there are hundreds, it's less appealing to check them manually. (Then there's the issue of updating docs, and other things like this)
People use agents because not only they don't want to write the initial sed script, they also don't want to verify at each place if it was correctly applied, and much less update docs. The root of this is laziness, but for decades we have hailed laziness as a virtue in programming.