Comment by cma

> It will just spin its wheels. So for that reason I'm a little skeptical about the value of automating this process.

Question is would you rather find out it got stuck in a loop with 3 minutes with a coding agent or 40 minutes copy pasting. It can also get out of loops more often by being able to use tools to look up definitions with grep, ctags or language server tools, though you can copy paste commands for that too it will be much slower.