A tweet: "oh lord, how did i not think of this before?

· Bits and Bobs 9/8/25
  • A tweet: "oh lord, how did i not think of this before? giving claude ast-grep for code searches and refactors has turned it into an unstoppable coding monster"
    • Manipulating the AST gives leverage over manipulating strings of source code.
    • AST is hard for humans to understand, but not for LLMs!
    • LLMs have the patience to deal with complicated types.
      • Even if they don't understand it at first, they are willing to try again and again and again until they get the tests to pass.

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