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> strip out any functions that weren’t being used anymore—something like 300-plus functions. Doing that by hand would easily have taken a day or more

Any decent IDE can do that refactoring instantly.

> I could go on

Clearly.



  > Any decent IDE can do that refactoring instantly.
its an interesting point that got me thinking: at what point does all of this just boil down to dev ux/ide features, and does this need to run on the server (as economic rents) vs just locally?


> Any decent IDE can do that refactoring instantly.

The refactoring? Sure. But IDEs don't read your code and logically categorize it into folders. From what I understand, they are saying that they outsourced the thinking part as well.




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