This has beeny experience as well. It keeps emphasizing "beauty" and keeps missing "correctness"
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llms are systems that output human-readable natural language answers, not true answers
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This weekend I successfully used Claude to add three features in a Rust utility I had wanted for a couple years. I had opened issue requests, but no else volunteered. I had tried learning Rust, Wayland and GTK to do it myself, but the docs at the time weren’t great and the learning curve was steep. But Claude figured it all out pretty quick.
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I'm pretty sure that is how we got CORBA
now just make it construct UML models and then abandon this and move onto version 2
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Honest question: I haven't used AI much. Are there any AIs or IDEs that can reliably rename a variable across all instances in a medium sized Python project? I don't mean easy stuff that an editor can do (e.g. rename QQQ in all instances and get lucky that there are no conflicts). I mean be able to differentiate between local and/or library variables so it doesn't change them, only the correct versions.
Not reliably, no. Python is too dynamic to do that kind of thing without solving general program equivalence which is undecidable.
Use a static language, problem solved.
IntelliJ IDEA, if it knows it is the same variable, it will rename it. Usually works in a non fucked up codebase that uses eval or some obscure constructs like saving a variable name into a variable as a string and dynamically invoking it.
For the most part "Rename symbol" in VSCode will work well. But it's limited by scope.
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I use pycharm for this and in general it does a great job. At work we've got some massive repos and it'll handle it fine.
The "find" tab shows where it'll make changes and you can click "don't change anything in this directory"
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cant wait to see "we use AI agents to generate well structured non-functioning code" with off centered everything and non working embeds on the website