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YesCodex, Claude Code · 21 Jan 2026

I had some successes refactoring one instance of a pattern in our codebase, along with all the class' call sites

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third (so far) of our tests

In the thread “Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?”

Helped: Providing context like traces and symbols; parallel refactoring following initial example.

Got in the way: Missed one indirect instance of the responsible pattern.

I had some successes refactoring one instance of a pattern in our codebase, along with all the class' call sites, and having codex identify all the others instances of said pattern and refactor them in parallel by following my initial refactor. Similarly, I had it successfully migrate a third (so far) of our tests from an old testing framework to a new one, one test suite at a time. …