Gabriele SveltoI've seen people claiming - with a straight face - that mechanical refactoring is a good use-case for LLM-based tools. Well, sed was developed in 1974 and - according to Wikipedia - first shipped in UNIX version 7 in 1979. On modern machines it can process files at speeds of several GB/s and will not randomly introduce errors while processing them. It doesn't cost billions, a subscription or internet access. It's there on your machine, fully documented. What are we even talking about?
d@nny disc@ mc²@gabrielesvelto i spent the last week using sed to produce an entire module system for a prototype. lovely piece of software that expands the meaning of structured data. not at all perfect but if we're comparing it to statistical approaches it at least has the benefit of determinism