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Version Control for Everything
AI assisted agentic coding has reached escape velocity, but non-programming use cases haven’t seen the same degree of adoption. I believe that the main reason for this is the lack of version control. Imagine using claude-code outside of a git repository. Even for small things like refactors, using AI would be very stressful and error prone: It would be near-impossible to track the changes that the LLM made. Auditing the LLM generated code is useful in the moment to ensure that changes are reasonable before moving on to another task, and in the future when you want to understand why some code was written The LLM could put the codebase in a bad state and you’d have no way of reverting This is true even if the LLM is incredibly smart and didn’t make any “mistakes” - the human prompter forgetting to tell it about a design constraint could be bad enough There’s no split between the “development branch” and “prod” You can’t parallelize development by having multiple LLMs work on different branches Even when I pay Claude to work on a small script, I always create a new git repo just to make my life easier.
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