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Cursor and Claude constantly was losing focus, refactoring services without taking care of …

… Cursor and Claude constantly was losing focus, refactoring services without taking care of modules/imports at all and generally making things much worse no matter how hard "prompt engineering" I tried. I gave up and made a Jira task for a junior developer instead.

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Yes it feels like refactoring would be a perfect use case for LLMs but it only works for very simple cases. I've tried several times to do bigger refactors spanning several files with Cursor and it always failed. I think it's a combination of context window being not big enough and also tooling/prompting could probably be improved to better support the use case of refactoring.

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> I gave up and made a Jira task for a junior developer instead. The true senior engineer skill.

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I would use find ... -exec, ripgrep and sed for this. If I have a junior or intern around I'd screen share with them and then have them try it out on their own. Text files are just a database with a somewhat less consistent query language than SQL.

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