Change someone to do something

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Is it natural to say "change someone to do something instead of something"?
For example, I would like to say
"I changed my program to use linear layer instead of convolution layer".
In this sentence "my program" is the subject of "to use". So I am not using "to use" as a purpose. My program is actually something using 'linear layer'.

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The meaning of the sentence is clear, unambiguous and concise. You changed the program to do ... what? To use one procedure instead of another. A similar example is “We altered our heating system to use oil rather than coal”. “Oil rather than coal” seems to me to be a noun phrase that is the object of the verb “use”.
There are alternatives that may be a little clearer but are longer. For example: “I altered my program so that it would use A instead of using B.”

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