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YesCopilot · 13 Oct 2025

It's really helpful for repetitive refactor tasks, I just have to go to each line and it updates

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In the thread “Ask HN: How are senior SWEs using AI?”

Helped: Repetitive refactor tasks where find and replace fails.

Got in the way: AI suggests unwanted code, requiring faster typing to outpace latency.

… I usually limit it to a fancy auto-complete. It's really helpful for repetitive refactor tasks, I just have to go to each line and it updates. This way I still see what's happening, but it is faster than manually making those changes that can't be solved with a find and replace. …