Comment by simonw

Something I really appreciate about LLMs is that they make a whole bunch of much more sophisticated reliable tooling acceptable to me.

I've always been fascinated by AST traversal and advanced refactoring tools - things like tree-sitter or Facebooks's old codemod system https://github.com/facebookarchive/codemod

I never used them, because the learning curve in them was steep enough that I never found the time to climb it to the point that I could start solving problems.

Modern LLMs know all of these tools, which flattens that curve for me - I find it much easier to learn something like that if I can start from semi-working examples directly applicable to what I'm trying to do.