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NoGemini · 23 Sep 2025

It just got stuck on one file for 2 minutes and at that point I was already halfway through find/replacing it on my own

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In the thread “What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Asking questions

Got in the way: Modifying code in a big codebase

… Basically some but not all functions from a package moved into another package so I asked Gemini to just change instances of pkg.Foo to pkgnew.Foo and import pkgnew in those files. It just got stuck on one file for 2 minutes and at that point I was already halfway through find/replacing it on my own. For me it's been somewhat useful to ask questions but always fails at modifying any code in a big codebase.