Comment by yencabulator

> The modern coding agent harnesses put a LOT of work into the design of their tools for editing files. My favorite current example of that is the Claude edit suite [...]

Meanwhile, Claude Code extracting a part of a function, moving it to a different file, etc will corrupt your source code, just like the paper says. This is most noticeable as comments disappearing.

We need tooling with copy-paste/cut-paste style functionality, to avoid the LLM round-trip.