The author had 27 years of experience but still found "babysitting git" was painful.

I couldn't remember what's the last time git got in my way. I guess such benefit from AI is probably very specific to their setup. I don't know, maybe the author had some really complex workflow or used some super advanced git features.

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meerita an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Don’t beat me, I’m getting old. Even Git is starting to feel like unnecessary cardio.

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bloody-crow an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I have only about 17 years of experience and I consider myself a moderately advanced git user — I do interactive rebases with squashes, rewords or reordering and I do chunk manipulation per commit all the time. Or at least I used to.

Now I just type into the LLM what I want it do with git and it does it for me, much much quicker. I did not find "babysitting" git painful before, but I today I do feel like doing it manually is a just huge waste of time. A $20 LLM subscription could do this shit for me just as well or better while I spent my time doing more fun and interesting things.

	▲	zzyzxd 30 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In my experience, those operations require understanding, judgement, and taste. But all of that only matters if I care about the codebase enough for it to matter. So I don't think the disagreement is really about git. It's about how much of the thinking you're comfortable outsourcing. I do have some repos that's highly vibed up, in those repos I just let AI do whatever it want.
	▲	bulbar 22 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What do you mean with "manually"? Did you type complex commands by hand? Simple commands or using an GUI is faster than explaining an AI what you want to do, no?