alt Hacker News> context-heavy tasks like lints, refactors, file batch ops, and grep-and-replace can burn through your monthly limit in days.
Grep-and-replace? You mean, sed? People burn tokens instead of using sed? Honest question.
> context-heavy tasks like lints, refactors, file batch ops, and grep-and-replace can burn through your monthly limit in days.
Grep-and-replace? You mean, sed? People burn tokens instead of using sed? Honest question.
AI beginners use Opus as a replacement for grep/sed.
Mediocre programmers use AI to write sed one-liners for them and then brag about AI productivity boosts.
And experts just use sed directly and then they wonder why everyone else is raving about AI.