Sometimes metaprogramming (macros etc) is a useful technique for refactoring, simply because you can try and then discard different designs: https://blog.metaobject.com/2018/11/refactoring-towards-language.html
(I've certainly written then thrown away macros when writing Lisp!)
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I'm debating whether `from foo import *` is a bad feature for my toy programming language.
Forcing `import foo as f` and later `f::bar()` is so much more amenable to local static analysis. You also don't get issues with name clashes.
It's certainly convenient though.
I certainly see the appeal of an LLM system with full context and tool use (OpenClaw), but the lethal trifecta puts me off deploying it.
I do like the idea of an agent with a heartbeat though. A bunch of nice cron-style workflows can be built on top.
GIMP is huge tool that I certainly haven't mastered, but it's so useful to have around.
I used it this week to convert images from obscure formats to common ones. It's a great swiss army knife and runs everywhere.