Writing tests in the traditional red-green approach is invaluable. But make sure they're red for the right reason!</just-lost-10-minutes>
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LLMs are great at style transfer, and this works surprisingly well for syntactic transformations too.
I rewrote a small website's EJS templates to 1500 LOC of TSX with a oneshot in Claude. It took ~12 minutes, but it just worked.
(TSX seems nicer than EJS for static analysis.)
I've realised that my favourite side projects all have fiddly bits.
It's really nice to have small features that you can add or debug in a few minutes.
Emacser (noun): a person who spends 45 minutes and 20 lines of code to save one keypress.