Nick e/code

Been throwing code into editors for 20+ years. Automating things. PHP contributor. World citizen. Migrant. Annoying. Tweeting for myself.

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

🎉 Introducing `refactorlah` CLI -- fully open source.

Agents are surprisingly bad at renaming/moving files.

They are doing `git mv`s, then dozens of `grep`s, then hand-editing imports/namespaces/references while burning tokens and wasting time on tiny refactors.

The `refactorlah` CLI gives them one boring command instead:

`refactorlah move A B` or in bulk `refactorlah move --use-list A,B tests/A,tests/B`

Then file/s are moved, and namespaces, imports, references, etc. automatically updated.

Ambiguous renames are skipped and reported, so the agent can follow up manually instead of guessing.

Support for Go, Python, PHP, Symfony, Twig is landed.
A PR for JavaScript, TypeScript, Vite etc. is open.

I built and dogfooded `refactorlah` over the last few weeks. It works better for me than keeping an MCP server running in an IDE or making agents struggle through long tool-call chains for basic moves.

Still in alpha! Experimental, built with my best buddy Codex, and still dogfooding.

More eyes -> more dogfooding -> releasing early.

What do you think?

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

@ReinierButot Right. Agents will hopefully make it possible eventually.

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

It's actually really hard to make a conclusion. The impact was basically non existent, so from that point of view I was wrong because -- it could be seen as overblown. On the other hand, the exploit is serious. And yet, too complicated to allow it to be used before most servers were patched. Now the question is: how much did the "panic" prevent because it made people actually move instead of sitting it out?

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

@ReinierButot Not universally, I guess. As you mentioned elsewhere, depends on the importance and surface. Better safe than sorry.

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

@NoemiTitarenco legit question ngl

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@tokoaxxx @thsottiaux @poteto Cannot wait until Tibo wakes up and sees the internet going wild lmao

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@NoemiTitarenco I am so bullish on the future that I don't even care how many hard drives I will have to buy. Accelerate.

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

@0xtechnexus When I got back to Codex around April compaction happened without noticing. No idea why that got so excessive when they back the claimed they solved compaction.

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

If an agent happens to find an open door to a server, discovers that the app is MIT licensed, and then takes the code, did the agent commit a crime?

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@paulmichaeldev lmao'ed over that as well 😆

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

PHP devs reading this.

[Thariq @trq212]

feels like there needs to be a new way to distribute opensource software such that people can modify via agents but also get upstream automatically merged in

coding agents can do this but they won’t do it automatically

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

@0xtechnexus Oh wow, Sol Xhigh is already slow af. Cannot imagine using Astra Max for anything; very sporadically using Astra Light for planning. Why are you on Astra Max for writing code in the first place?

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

Normal Tibo-is-gonna-smash-that-button-rush.

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

Bro paid $4,988 to troll Poteto. 😆

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

https://t.co/Fgy0dBAHsJ has landed

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

@thsottiaux lmao

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

@SeanPTalbot @thsottiaux Rescued 18 minutes after you requested it lmao

[Nick e/code @nicksdot]

@calebdw You got me.

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@itstoz dunno brah but I don’t see the brag here