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