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Comment by traderj0e

3 days ago

Even if I'm in the middle of using the AI seriously but then want to rename a variable, I can't do that myself because it'll confuse the AI, so I'll tell it to rename. That seems pretty wasteful.

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amluto  2 days ago

At least GPT-5.4 and up seem to do okay if I just prefix my next message with something like "(I made edits.)".

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