Why We Built Deterministic AST Refactoring Instead of Prompting LLMs
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When developers ask an AI agent to "rename handleUser to processUser across the project", most agents perform fuzzy grep searches and attempt sequential file rewrites. This approach is prone to edge-case errors: Over-matching: Renaming handleUser inside string literals or unrelated comments. Shadow…
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- 2026-09-30 18:31 · DEV Community — AI
Why We Built Deterministic AST Refactoring Instead of Prompting LLMs