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Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here
(stackoverflow.blog)
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you saying that you use LLMs as refactoring tools, so things like to move code around, rename stuff, extract functions, and make changes that don't change the logic?
Or is it something else? Because as far as I know, LLMs are pretty bad at not making random changes, even if told to just reorder stuff, plus we have a lot of deterministic tools for that job, so I guess you probably mean something else. Honest question.
Sometimes refactoring tools are not enough and you have to do the same change in couple of places. Boring, repetitive work. For example last thing I did is that I refactored some code and I had to change the way objects used in tests are initialized. Basically couple hundred lines of just constructors and setters. I knew exactly what needs to be created because tests where there so I feed the expected structure into a LLM and it generated the code. Saved me some boring work and I didn't have to worry about mistakes because compiler and tests would pick it up.