... I learned that you could be inside vim, but manipulate the entire file as if you were piping the contents of the file into a command. The output of the command does in-line replacement of the entire file with those changes. That sounds confusing, but it just means you can be inside a vim file and do :%!grep test and it’ll remove all lines that don’t contain test, for example.

This post is a simple showcase of taking that concept, but throwing an llm into the mix to add more dynamic functionality.