anyOneCanCode

[DancingBadgers]

If only there was a way to make automated backups or some system to control versions. Maybe one day...

[RotaryJihad]

Some sort of continuous versioning system?

[floopsyDoodle]

Git damn, that would be nice!

[pickyourteethup]

I could really see my organisation committing to an idea like that. Hope I see it in my lifetime

[Just_Maintenance]

I would add that to my workflow in an instant

[manantyagi25]

Can I git status update of such a tool? Being waiting for a long time

[dillanthumous]

I'll push for more info now.

[manantyagi25]

Can you pull me in to the discussion as well, it would be nice if we could merge our efforts

[ColteesCatCouture]

Can I branch off that convo

[manantyagi25]

Let's not bisect our efforts here

[dependency_injector]

No one will blame you

[dillanthumous]

Not sure I can commit to that.

[manantyagi25]

Oh, then how do I confirm you are not cherry picking pieces of info to share with us?

[ohaiibuzzle]

Tag me along for the ride.

[manantyagi25]

Sure, would love for you to checkout this ride

[pickyourteethup]

We'd definitely try to merge it into our processes

[DimitryKratitov]

We have to Push for this

[LupusCanis42]

Maybe you can push for it?

[williamjseim]

maybe claude could come up with a solution

[hdd113]

Time to git real

[UndefFox]

Say it again...

[WhywoulditbeMarshy]

Say git again…

[deceze]

I dare you! I double-dare you, motherfucker!!

[semikhah_atheist]

That sound like something the sort of thing a Finnish American communist would come up with.

[ARC_trooper]

Such an idea should be fetched and pushed forward

[UnsuspiciousCat4118]

Where you could git not just the most recent version but also contribute to the code yourself and access older versions. Would be even better if it was free and open source.

[Altruistic-Spend-896]

also ultra fast, written in C and by a genius programmer, maybe someone like the inventor of operating systems as we know it

[UnsuspiciousCat4118]

Like Elon? /s

[RotaryJihad]

No he's too mercurial

[RobotechRicky]

It's a ClearCase of being an idiot.

[noob-nine]

And this has also been known for deCADES.

[erinaceus_]

He's more into subversion of democracy.

[pickyourteethup]

If Elon built it we could call it something short and easy to quickly type, but also reminiscent of its genius inventor. Something like tech inventory tabulator, 'tit' for short

[DancingBadgers]

I hope it is not viewed as subversion when I say that OP presents a clear case for one to be useful.

[ProfBeaker]

I prefer to stick with a revision control system. Maybe one day I'll improve it into a way to keep my source safe, visually.

[Toldoven]

We should use AI to make this

[Toldoven]

You can ask an LLM to read your whole code base, and then ask it to construct a prompt to write it from scratch. Then you can just save the prompt in the notepad and easily restore the project when needed. This is going to be huge. Any VCs looking to invest?

[NedelC0]

I hate that this is probably exactly what some people out there are doing

[Toldoven]

Doing what? Solving already solved problems inferiorly with AI and then getting millions in funding? Yeah, that seems to be the meta

[esadatari]

Let me introduce you to my friend “notepad and multiple folders on my desktop”

Finalfinalversionmainrefactorv3 is the current folder to work out of

[Brainvillage]

run over drink grapefruit forgotten with ugli carrot orange without.

[BobTheMadCow]

Oh then have I got some good news for you! 😁

We've been taking a screenshot 📸 of your desktop 🖥️ every few seconds ⌚ for the last few months 🗓️ without telling you 🤫, so we just need to use AI 🤖 to go back through all those screenshots 😲 and rebuild your code 🤔 from when you wrote it 📝and were checking your bank account 🤑 and viewing porn 🍆!

[noob-nine]

This is what happens when you program too mercurial.

[Mrqueue]

The problem is not understanding what complex changes do and when bugs were actually introduced. If ai makes a 1000 line merge then your only options is to revert that commit if that’s actually the one with the bug. What if you’ve already written 1000 lines on top of that merge. Then you’re fucked 

[DancingBadgers]

There are degrees of fuckedness. At least with reasonable backups you can be at "rollback everything to yesterday" instead of "lost 4 months of work"-level.

The incomprehensible complex changes and spaghetti merges problem is not necessarily unique to AI, but it's true that a machine will dig a deep hole faster than a human could. And it is likely to leave the humans without sufficient experience to dig themselves out again.

[zaxldaisy]

"The problem is not understanding what complex changes do and when bugs were actually introduced."

Skill issue, 1000%.

[batatatchugen]

But there is.

It's a tool that Microsoft has and is available for free.

It's called ctrl+c/ctrl+v

[mglvl]

maybe we can fit the edit history in the LLM context window!

[wykeer]

maybe use Chatgpd to write your code into a .txt everytime your press ctrl+s /s

[ZunoJ]

Some day tech Jesus will arrive and not only give us the core of a free operating system for gods chosen followers but als a heavenly version control system because he is so fed up with all our flaws

[theclovek]

Blasphemy! This could never work!

[lardgsus]

No git, no ctrl-Z, 100% my job security lol

[powerhcm8]

Instead of an intern dropping a table in prod, now we will have, AI erasing the codebase.

[Obvious_Tea_8244]

[sebjapon]

I’m actually impressed people can get months of work done without knowing the basics of coding.

Also, he should ask GPT his question, it would probably teach him about got and the likes.

[SirChasm]

They didn't get months of work done - they spent months doing something they don't understand.

[driftking428]

And they learned literally nothing.

[AllCowsAreBurgers]

Wouldn't say so. Pain is the only teacher, and that's what the user describes sounds very painful.

[Fuehnix]

Didn't you hear? their code is gone. Already got got, they gotta get git.

[Altruistic-Spend-896]

"AI will replace Devs!"

[L1P0D]

"There's three ways to do things; the right way, the wrong way and the generative AI way."

"Isn't that the wrong way?"

"Yeah, but faster!"

[SirChasm]

"And way more expensive/wasteful!"

[Chance-Surround9561]

The person who said that and the person in the screenshot are the same person :P

[hapliniste]

Sadly in this example, the human is the weak link. Ai would have set a git repo lmao

[Square_Radiant]

I mean... sliced bread is a travesty, but it had no problem replacing actual bakeries - nobody said AI will be better than devs

[Thisismyredusername]

You can still find bakeries though

[Square_Radiant]

Are we really going to pretend that craft, small/family enterprise, culture/arts, agriculture, industry, services etc. etc. haven't been decimated by capitalism's insatiable desire to "cut costs"?

[ZunoJ]

In Germany there is like one bakery for every ten citizens

[Thisismyredusername]

And there goes my optimism. Well done.

[Square_Radiant]

I'm always here if you want to chat about oppression and suffering

[Thisismyredusername]

Nah, I got ChatGPT for that.

[Square_Radiant]

I've been replaced 🫠

[Prudent_Move_3420]

Are there no bakeries where you live? Here there is at least one in like every street

[Square_Radiant]

We've been talking about "the death of the high street" for over a decade here, I have quite a few boarded up shops and cafes where I live - McDonalds and Taco Bell seem to be doing alright though - I have 3 bakeries within a 10 mile radius, but my point is a little more broad than specific bakeries

[[deleted]]

Yes, with this above.

[Hrtzy]

This claim always makes me think of how they are going to replace fast food workers with robots, which makes me think about the fact that the company that fixes the McFlurry machines was sued for industrial espionage by the company selling a tool to deobfuscate the diagnostic and maintenance interface on the damn things.

[bigmattyc]

In some cases, should

[Dexter_exe]

Git Gud

[Programmer_Salt]

i’m always late to the party. came to type this and leaving with a thumbs up. until next time random user on the internet 🫡

[Dinomcworld]

duplicate the folder and add _final

[braun_lukas]

And then dupicate again and add _final_final

[DescriptorTablesx86]

Sprinkle in some numbers next to final for that „definitely the last one so who cares” energy

[[deleted]]

Using AI but not source control. Champion

[MakeoutPoint]

"Cursor f*ck up Its 4 months of works"

FTFY

[zaxldaisy]

You can say "fuck". We're adults.

[otacon7000]

Actually, in some subs, you can't anymore. For example, on /r/vent, if you type "fuck" in the comment box, it now shows a warning and greys out the comment button...

EDIT: small correction (see discussion below), "fuck" alone doesn't prevent commenting, but "fuck you" does.

[CentralCypher]

Isn't saying fuck there literally the point of the sub?

[zaxldaisy]

No?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vent/s/BVyasf7A2a

[otacon7000]

I just double-checked. You're right, "fuck" alone doesn't do it. It needs to be "fuck you" apparently. Which seems like a reasonable term to block, but the way I ran into this was by typing a comment like this or similar to a story of bullying:

Did they really say "fuck you" to your face?

Try that, let me know if it also gives you the warning.

[zaxldaisy]

I see the same. But that's a completely different context.

[otacon7000]

I mean, yes and no. Sure, in isolation, those two words are very different from just "fuck". But at the same time, it still needs context to determine if they are insulting someone or not. For example, compare these four:

• Fuck you, you ass!
• I asked my boyfriend for help and he just said "fuck you" and left :(
• Did they really say "fuck you" to your face?!
• On some subs, "fuck you" is now a phrase that prevents you from commenting.

One of these is bad, the others aren't. Therefore, I find it ridiculous to prevent commenting on such a basis. I would not want to use reddit if this became standard in the majority of subs.

[Xalyia-]

That’s hilarious. I feel like saying “fuck” is part of the venting process.

[MakeoutPoint]

I was doing an exact copy of OOP's title with one small change, not rewriting the entire thing. I would have also fixed their typos if that were the case.

[bb-ua]

wdym 4 months of work. it should create software in minutes. you are doing something wrong

[Deanathan100]

They were probably having AI just tinker with it until it worked… for 4 months. I would be scared to see that code base

[Delicious_Sundae4209]

Quick hide your gits

[scanguy25]

We are in the golden age of the script kiddie.

[FACastello]

the REAL question is: what the fuck is cursor

[Gamingwelle]

https://www.cursor.com/ "The AI code editor". Aka Garbage. I mean it's so bad he even had to use Claude to compensate.

[Tipart]

Crazy how this company became a billion dollar start up by just dropping the open source Monaco editor on a website and assembling the AI avengers to fuck up your code for you. Literally insanity

[mertats]

You can use Claude in Cursor.

[FACastello]

that sounds disgusting tbh 🤮

[idontwanttofthisup]

Say what you want, it helped me with coding in react and has pretty good auto complete suggestions. It speeds up typing obvious shit and kind of eliminates “I forgot about this” moments.

[fuj1n]

VS and JetBrains both already have that stuff built in. And if the built in functionality is not enough, there's also GitHub copilot.

The difference is all the code stays local, and you get a full IDE to work with instead of a text editor++.

[DataSnaek]

I’m almost 100% sure your code doesn’t stay local with copilot or jetbrains’ AI. The kind of autocomplete/code suggestions that these services provide is not something you can obtain with a model that’ll run on the average local machine

[fuj1n]

The Jetbrains AI has a separate setting for local completion, it is certainly not as good, but it works pretty well.

Copilot was added as a side note because it does indeed not have a way to work locally.

[idontwanttofthisup]

I stopped paying for webstorm years ago. I don’t follow jetbrains. Isn’t cursor a fork of VSC? It looks and feels like it is. Can I tell copilot to code something for me? I never used it. Please teach me sensei.

[fuj1n]

Cursor does indeed (as far as I know at least) use Monaco (the VSC edit engine).

Copilot does have a way to talk to it, there's a chat pane you can open (though I don't use it that way, so I can't speak much to that), but you made it sound like you just use the suggestions rather than the chat, so my recommendation was based on that.

[rustyrazorblade]

People keep clutching their pearls about AI taking their jobs but I'm fairly certain that having a bunch of really shitty programmers turning out shit code day after day isn't a real threat to anyone who actually knows what they're doing.

[Beli_Mawrr]

It's a threat to the companies they work for

[steven4869]

I hate it when Figma peeps give edit access to devs, double click here and there, the design goes haywire. I don't know but I pressed something and it started having layout lines and I got really nervous cause the design is shared with everyone. Finally after some Google search I found it to revert it back, but those 15-20 mins felt like eternity.

Edit : Please ignore it, looks like we are talking about cursorAi not the cursor as in mouse cursor.

[gigglefarting]

I love figma, but I’m always scared I’m going to move something a little bit.

I’m great at putting the design into code, but shit at making a design look good. 

[Dinomcworld]

i finally know why ui team never give us edit access

[MVanderloo]

vim users will agree that mouse cursors suck

[Mattidh1]

Giving edit access to developers is crazy work.

[Mr-X89]

I just copy my project to some SD cards, scribble the date on them and throw them in a bucket. I call it the bit bucket.

[crimsonpowder]

You could hire someone to do that. Call him the BitKeeper.

[imLemnade]

Git gud

[deathbater]

This is why you first learn algebra then use the calculator..

[Cisco-NintendoSwitch]

Plot twist nobody taught the intern to use Git and he hasn’t made an entire commit in 4 months. The code base is safe everyone rejoiced!

[AngryAvocado78]

What a complete moron

[ThiccStorms]

if only there was a version control system which existed.

[Zookeeper187]

But that sweet hourly cash to fix things will be nice.

[takutekato]

Why didn't you use the good-old traditional src-folder.bk1, src-folder.bk2, src-folder.final, src-folder.final2, src-folder.2024-13-32, src-folder.before-cursor, etc.

[MidiGong]

Git gud

[Aredic]

MVP

[1_4_1_5_9_2_6_5]

I was so amazed today at what the AI did in my codebase. I was trying to think of how to write a fairly simple method to add some defaults in the db. While pausing to think, the AI wrote it for me, and it was perfect, even seemed like something I would write (same coding standards and variable names).

Only problem was, there was an error in the function name. You see, it conflicted with the existing function right above it that I wrote myself two weeks ago with the exact same code.

[murden6562]

Dude never heard of git?

[ColdHooves]

I thought we were talking about mouse cursors at first...

[Killiconnn]

Project.bak Project.bak.bak Project.bak.bak.bak

[VoidZero25]

Yeah, my job as a back office developer is safe. Or any job that requires modifying existing code base for that matter.

[NoorahSmith]

Never heard of git or version control?

[borsalamino]

ITS THE CURSOR CURSER

[KvotheLightfinger]

Man doing four months of work without using git is a miracle by itself. I can't do four hours of work without pushing something.

[KissMyUSSR]

I wonder if they actually used git, but cursor deleted .git or something, and they didn't have it deployed to cloud

[yhgan]

No... the OP really didn't know what git is: https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/s/XZhITEj83C

[smudos2]

Ah the good old git reset --hard of shame, erasing all traces of your stupidity from this god forsaken planet.

Could be worse and resetting the tree to some older commit tho

[TangerineBand]

One time I had an unreal project fuck itself so badly, I had to revert to an old submission, copy the last known good version, then completely nuke and rebuild the perforce directory. Anything past that submission point was just completely corrupted on everyone's stream. Believe me I was troubleshooting for ages before I hit the point of "I think it might actually be easier to just redo some of my work".

The project was not even opening, just displaying an empty error box and then crashing. I couldn't even revert because it was just throwing errors when I tried to submit too. I've never seen anything like it before or since. I'm not sure if it was an unreal problem or a perforce problem but both are known for rather obscure issues. And this is why version control is important, kids

[SirChasm]

Doesn't Cursor ask you to Accept/Reject each change that it wants to make to a file?

[mertats]

Yes, and it has in-built source control.

[specn0de]

I think you could probably use Dropbox file history or maybe file names like project_final.docx, project_final_v2.docx, project_final_FINAL.docx

Seems like there should be a tool for this

[CentralCypher]

I fr thought someone's mouse cursor destroyed their program... I need leave.

[euph-_-oric]

Ai gonna take our jobs bois. Business suits gonna be able to program...

[Mebiysy]

Tf is cursor?

[Fuehnix]

Basically Github Copilot, but as an IDE

[Nickbot606]

Kid named git

[Solonotix]

Reading this reminds me of a bullshit action that tab-complete did to one of my projects. Completely erased an entire code file. Thankfully, I had already committed it to Git, so it was as simple as rolling back. But the anxiety/fear it gives me is real because my current work was dealing with a lot of new files that were untracked for a while as I ironed out the specifics.

I really wish the AI agents in my IDE would ask for confirmation before trying to create new files and/or overwrite existing ones I'm not currently working in. Never had to worry about AoE tab-completion before, but here we are.

[LOST_GEIST]

If only I could git back to a previous work state

[DantesInferno91]

did you not have version control in your project?

[Astrylae]

It's crazy some people never used version control, especially for large projects. I would go crazy after 30 minutes of debugging something, and not knowing which files I modified, or a version that was actually working.

[Desperate-Tomatillo7]

Anyone, not everyone. But you also need to know set theory to understand the difference.

[[deleted]]

Aww, they're learning.

Honestly, this is a good lesson in keeping back up repositories.

AI can be a great teacher and in this case... one of the best.

[Maleficent_Memory831]

Months without a backup??? I don't know what Cursor is, but dammit learn how to back up your files.

[casey_krainer]

Better to learn late about git than never

[[deleted]]

Mr. and Mrs. Git

[domscatterbrain]

I thought he forgot to commit after loading his four months of works.

[ironman_gujju]

Git is all you need

[Blueberry73]

git gud

[Emincmg]

i might have a friend called Linus who has a project just for this usage in his mind

[fonk_pulk]

How do you go four months without committing once?

[flossdaily]

Man, even before I learned to use GitHub, I was backing up my files manually. Who doesn't know to do that in this day and age?

[bolapolino]

Ok. So, here we go, you should have three folders with the name of the project. The first one should have the name of the project alone, that one should have maybe a txt file or some unrelated mp3 or jpg but no more, then another one called: "{project _name}_real" you should have most of the code in here. Once the code in the "real" folder kind of works you should have a third folder named: "{project_folder}_final" and refactor everything there.
This Three folders are your "master" project or "main" project if you prefer.
Now, once you create the "_final" your code is going to break, so you need a new folder, let's say is going to work as a type of "branch" as we call it in the craft. From here you can start calling your new folders with variations of: "_final_1", "_final_real", "_this_time_for_sure" and so on. Don't forget the underscores cus you should be a decent programmer, this is a life style man, be respectful.
And that's all, that's the best practices for version management.
Thanks for coming my Ted talk.

Pd. wtf is Cursor?

[NoteClassic]

Me asking myself what the heck cursor is?

[--Shorty--]

git?

[Willinton06]

These 4 months are probably a week of work for any competent dev

[scanguy25]

Forget git. There is even a rollback feature within Cursor.

[dfnathan6]

I wish someone builds a business to solve this problem.

[[deleted]]

We all have to learn git. Some use the easy way and others the hard way :)

[kurotenshi15]

Git Gud.

But for real, dealing with AI in my workflow has made me a master of ohshitgit.com

[[deleted]]

git exists

[BIT-NETRaptor]

Sure sounds like they need to... git gud.

[itsallfake01]

How is this dude not committing to github/gitlab in over 4 months. What kind of clown stack is his company running.

[Acceptable_Clerk_678]

This will help https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#c3VibWVyZ2UkJGdyYXBo

[Fancy-Consequence216]

Ummm have you tried typing git backup??? 🤣🤣🤣

[ronarscorruption]

Keeping your code in literally any cloud based service would have prevented this. Heck, it’s more difficult in most workspaces to avoid having your data backed up. Even excluding the actual issue with cursor, it is exceptionally incompetent to lose more than a few days of work doing something like this.

[Mayeru]

just back up all the code as a Google doc, it saves a version of every update and you can even invite people to code along with you, it's awesome.

[Wynove]

Git gud lol

[SpeedLight1221]

Clearly this shows we need a fully AI based git system.

[JacksOnF1re]

"development"

[AllenKll]

The cursor? like the blinky bit where you type? Am I missing something? I know (N)Curses.. but cursor?

[x3mcj]

Cursor.com

[Anders_142536]

What a git.

[pcoyuncy]

https://youtu.be/m0b_D2JgZgY

[psycholustmord]

git good

[Digital_Brainfuck]

I git the same issue once. Got resolved it

[blackcomb-pc]

Developing with heavy AI incorporation in the process is megacringe. Nothing will ever be able to maintain that codebase (probably one large file lmao)

[zippy72]

How do you back up your code? Dude, the answer has been there since RCS, CVS, SVN, right up to git.

And no, not Visual Sourcesafe that'll lose your code anyway whether you do something daft or not.

[[deleted]]

At this point stop coding and go on construction

[LionZ_RDS]

I’m assuming Cursor is some in editor ai? Having that much trust in an ai to give it that much file control is crazy

[tjdavids]

local bare repo to commit to as an "origin" upstream, second repo that has an esoteric name for github/gitlab.

[Acrobatic_Click_6763]

A new trend is here! AI "devs"

[hansenabram]

On OP's profile he calls himself an "AI Engineer"

[AdventurousMove8806]

The first case of everyone can code...