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First time I used Claude I asked it to look at the current repo and just tell me where the database connection string was defined. It added 100 lines of code.

I asked it to undo that and it deleted 1000 lines and 2 files

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Would `git reset --hard` have worked to in your case? I guess you want to have each babystep in a git commit, in the end you could do a `git rebase -i` if needed.

Bam, now it did git reset --soft [initial commit] and force pushed to origin

Without git I would have been screwed. AI doesn't commit anything, I do when I'm satisfied

Ah, so you have not yet been forced to tell it DO NOT AMEND THE LAST COMMIT

Whatever settup I have in the office doesn't allow git without me approving the command. Or anything else - I often have to approve a grep because is redirects some output to /dev/null which is a write operation.

this has often saved me.

I simply disallow any git commands

"Hmm, it looks like I can't run git commands directly. I will quickly implement a small shell wrapper so I can commit."

  ln /bin/git fit
  ./fit

How do you disable commands?

"well, it looks like I cannot run shell scripts, that’s strange. Let’s try implementing a git compatible vcs in rust"

this is sadly spot on

One annoying thing about that flow is that when you change the world outside the model it breaks its assumptions and it loses its way faster (in my experience).

And accuses you of being a linter

To be fair to the model, I really can act like one sometimes.

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