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Yesterday, I used vim motions to clean up some JMH benchmark log data to a CSV. It was genuinely so useful to be able to precisely delete and replace based on regexes. I'm sure I could have done with a graphical find and replace, but it was definitely faster via vim, especially after recording macros to automate the repetitive edits.

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Yes. So much this. I've also always loved combining that with the macro functionality.

Except: Yesterday, I used an LLM (4o-mini-high) to do this kind of task instead and i might never go back.

I considered it, but there were hundreds of lines of data and I cba to verify all of them once they'd been through the LLM.

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