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Yes. It is so easy and cheap to refactor in a strongly typed language--no AI needed. And such a waste of electricity, chips, water and money to let some AI model give it a shot. This something we could reliable and correctly do for decades with serious tools and languages.

To this day people still 'refactor' by doing string replacement and hoping for the best. Any serious IDE should just say no to that.



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