this approach has chopped down days worth of refactorings to a couple of minutes and hours
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chopped down days worth of refactorings to a couple of minutes and hours
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Helped: Bounded audit tasks and creating shell scripts for repetitive fixes.
… You can even ask claude to review the file with you afterwards. I've used this kind of approach to greatly increase our overall code quality & performance tuning - I really don't understand all the negative comments as this approach has chopped down days worth of refactorings to a couple of minutes and hours. In places where you see your coding assistant is slow or making mistakes or it is going line by line where you know a simple regex find/replace would work instantly, ask it to help you create a shell script as a tool for itself to call, that does task xyz that it can call. …