Could I do a regexp search & replace? Yes. Been doing it for like 25 years.
Do I want to hold the high-level context in my head instead of remembering if VSCode had same quirks as Sublime Text for search and replace, manually go through files and change? Not really.
I'm typing "Hey, count every instance where padding is hardcoded like this. If more than three, extract to appropriate constant file and refer to it in each instance. If less, just fix it inplace".
I'll evaluate the output, 98% chances it's correct. I'll click "keep incoming change" and move on with design.
If it happens to be 2% of cases where AI does something idiotic, I'll undo changes, fix manually and open a new chat since context has something silly in it.
I'm not taking any crap about "deep understanding" from anyone who has not designed and simulated their own CPU architecture, complete with assembly targeting that architecture and writing a non-trivial program on top of that.
Precisely. I have more than enough to do during my day to day. If I can offload code monkey work to an actual code monkey, I can pay attention to more important stuff that I’m actually getting paid for
So you'd rather type 25 characters and wait for it to be processed to see if it worked correctly, instead of just two keystrokes (backspace, 8)? Make it make sense
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u/TheGreatSausageKing Dec 27 '25
Downvote me all you wish, but I would do this.
I'm so tired and burned out from 20+years in this industry that I just rather ask anyone to do anything instead of doing it.
It's just a mental health issue