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by sebstefan 661 days ago
What kind of question does it ask the LLM? Giving it a whole function and asking "What should we rename <variable 1>?" repeatedly until everything has been renamed?

Asking it to do it on the whole thing, then parsing the output and checking that the AST still matches?

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For each variable:

1. It asks the LLM to write a description of what the variable does

2. It asks for a good variable name based on the description from 1.

3. It uses a custom Babel plugin to do a scope-aware rename

This way the LLM only decides the name, but the actual renaming is done with traditional and reliable tools.

This answer is reassuring.

Based on it, I went and read the readme. The readme was also excellent, and answered every question I had. Great job, thank you, I'll be trying this.