Dev reflects on hand-refactoring with Opus 4.6 instead of trusting agents
madeofAjala · x · 2026-10-15
A developer recalls not trusting Opus 4.6 to edit files directly, instead using its suggestions for very clean manual refactoring — and suspects results would differ with a fully autonomous agent manager.
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