I've had a similar thought. A super refactor feature would be amazing, but wouldn't fit into the current zeitgeist of agent everything. Hopefully as the hype starts to die down and prices go up, we'll get some of these smaller, more targeted features.
replyYou don't need a special feature for this. Just tell the coding assistant what to do.
replyThen watch it f'up half your codebase because it thinks it's slightly related to your examples. The alternative, giving it 10 examples, is actually more work.
replyYou should try using the existing agents for your semi-manual editing. You don't need editor support. The coding agent can find "things like this" faster than you can. Just tell it what to look for and how to change it.
replyWhat I did was make one commit by hand (involving multiple files), and then told Codex (last year's Codex!) to make the equivalent changes to other instances in the code base.
Wait, have you been using Cursor? This is exaclty what it does fairly well.
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