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One of my latest linguistic pet peeves is usage of the overly simple and nondescript word "do" when other verbs would describe more succinctly what is happening.

You don't "do" changes. This sounds lazy at best, unintelligent at worst, and fails to communicate what's happening. "Make changes" would be better diction and more appropriate vernacular. You could even "enact changes upon" or "affect changes to."

Alternatively, drop the extra verb altogether: "Use the Mikado Method to change complex codebases safely"

> After a couple of minutes, just stop and think. What’s missing? What would make it easier to do that change, like the previous one?

"Perform." Not "do." You would be _performing_ a change.

But hey at least I'm pretty sure an LLM didn't write this article =)



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