Comment by geon
9 days ago
Sounds great.
I'd like to see more contextually meaningful refactoring tools. Like "Remove this dependency" or "Externalize this code with a callback".
And refactoring shouldn't be done by generatively rewriting the code, but as a series of guaranteed equivalent transformations of the AST, each of which should be committed separately.
The AI should be used to analyse the value of the transformation and filter out asinine suggestions, not to write code in itself.
If it can't guarantee exact equivalence, it should at least rerun the relevant tests in the background and make sure they still pass before making suggestions.
It would be awesome if an ai could speculatively refactor sections of code to an exact equivalent where inconsistency stands out more. That way you could find bugs and make actual features more understandable.