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Fork the repo.
Ask an LLM to rename all the variables and add comments and docstrings. Give it your style guide (assuming you have one).
Ask another LLM to check their work.
Done.
Disclaimer: I'm not a programmer, I'm a network engineer who dabbles in automation and scripting. But it seems to me that grunt work like this is what LLMs are really good for.
Also I only use short variable names inside of loops (for i in iterable...). Is that not how it should be done?
In Go, the recommended convention for variable name length is to be proportional to their scope. It is common to use one or few letters long variables if they are local to a few lines loop or a short function.