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# [Stop Letting Coding Agents Do Manual Multi-Spot String Replacements: Manual Text Edits vs. Parameterized AST Codemod Tools (-94.8% Input Tokens)](https://tappers.hashnode.dev/e31-parameterized-ast-codemod-tool?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

💡 AI Labo Benchmark Series — Experiment E31 (Edit Primitives & AST Tooling) This post is part of our empirical benchmark series testing AI coding agent harness patterns inside network-isolated Proxmo

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