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Honest question: would an LLM be able to write useful comments in code like this?
It would probably struggle to see the larger picture. I can see it being used to add comments in self-contained functions though without too much difficulty.
It can be better han nothing, but not really. The LLM faces the same challenge that any competent coder does: neither were present to learn the human, business and organization context when the code was first written.
use the LLM to generate regression tests for the large file, then start refactoring it