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I got Gemini to make me a code-AST rewriter for a specific issue I wanted to clean up in bulk across a huge code base
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In the thread “Surprisingly fast AI-generated kernels we didn't mean to publish yet”, replying to this comment
Helped: Using AI for specific spot tasks like benchmarking and custom tool creation.
Got in the way: AI struggles with obscure problems lacking internet answers.
… IT work is the same. As a recent example, I got Gemini to make me a code-AST rewriter for a specific issue I wanted to clean up in bulk across a huge code base. Using the Roslyn compiler SDK is a bit fiddly, but it spat out a working tool for me in under an hour. …