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by slopinthebag 18 days ago
Yes it's so useful for mechanical changes, refactors, and creating similar but slightly different components etc. It turns out that when you feed the word prediction machine a bunch of examples of what you want, and then some text that it can use to predict more text, it can do a good job!

The hard part is what text you feed it and how to judge the output.