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> context-heavy tasks like lints, refactors, file batch ops, and grep-and-replace can burn through your monthly limit in days. Grep-and-replace? You mean, sed?
by irishcoffee 6mo ago
> context-heavy tasks like lints, refactors, file batch ops, and grep-and-replace can burn through your monthly limit in days.
Grep-and-replace? You mean, sed? People burn tokens instead of using sed? Honest question.
- fxtentacle 6mo agoAI beginners use Opus as a replacement for grep/sed. Mediocre programmers use AI to write sed one-liners for them and then brag about AI productivity boosts. And experts just use sed directly and then they wonder why everyone else is raving about AI.
- baal80spam 6mo agoThis warrants a "galaxy brain" meme.
- rl3 6mo agoHaving written more sed invocations by hand than I care to remember, please bin me in the mediocre camp. Aside: The speed at which AI can spit out complex diagnostics is nuts. Par is usually half a second for a dozen complex shell commands tailored to the exact problem at hand.