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Agentic refactoring is very questionable if you want to maintain quality, as it will rewrite all your code to be more average.
by datadrivenangel 4mo ago
Agentic refactoring is very questionable if you want to maintain quality, as it will rewrite all your code to be more average.
- zahlman 4mo agoI've found that if you look over the code and notice and describe a specific problem and solution, the agent can apply a refactoring for you well enough; and that's often faster than editing the file yourself even if you already know exactly what to do. The idea of setting up an agentic loop to review code and propose and implement refactorings still seems pretty awful to me, though, yeah. Maybe cut that off at the first green-bar revision, and then apply some actual taste and judgement.