I made a game engine and a game back in highschool, but all that code is lost because I didn't know how to use git. I knew git existed (and even knew enough to know it was better than mercurial or svn), but I was too lazy to learn.
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Git wasn't the first version control software. I remember using sccs back in 1991 and apparently it was written all the way back in 1972 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System
Don't trust anyone who can't spell 'oops'.
Maybe he was cursing the god of dev ops
Nah his opps fucked up his backup.
His operations department?
Just a heads up, it you don't know how to use cli git in 2025 you're probably a shit developer. There are undoubtedly exceptions, but I would argue not knowing version control intimately makes you a bad developer.
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Fake developer doesn't use version control. Big surprise.
I just want to pause a moment to wish a "fuck you" to the guy who named an AI model "Cursor" as if that's a useful name. It's like they're expecting accidental google searches to be a major source of recruitment.
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It's a scary amount of projects these days managed by a bunch of ZIP files:
- Program-2.4.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED2.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED-final.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED-final-REAL.zip
- Program-2.4-FIXED-FINAL-no-seriously.zip
- Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this.zip
- Program-2.4-FINAL-use-this-2.zip
- Program-2.4-working-maybe.zip
- Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE.zip
- Program-2.4-FINAL-BUGFIX-LAST-ONE-v2.zip
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Don't worry, I'm sure Cursor will be able to clobber your git history and force push to master any day now
Genuine question: what would it take to poison an LLM with ai tools to run git push --force origin main or sudo rm -rf /
we just need a little more AI
You know, none of the “AI is dangerous” movies thought of the fact that AI would be violently shoved into all products by humans. Usually it’s like a secret military or corporate thing that gets access to the internet and goes rogue.
In reality, it’s fancy text prediction that has been exclusively shoved into as much of the internet as possible.
"Developer"
"my" 4 months of "work"
Those are the ones easily replaced by AI. 99% of stuff "they" did was done by AI anyway!
I remember SVN
I want to forget SVN
I never understood the SVN hate. Then, as now, the problems are almost never caused by the tools, and almost always caused by the people misusing them.
I never got around to using anything except git, partly because of all the hate people would throw at the other competitors back in the day. Even if the criticisms were not fair, and even if it was all a secret conspiracy to kill git competitors, it definitely worked out for the best. Imagine the hell we'd be in today if we had to constantly deal with different VCS solutions.
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Forget git. Sending zip files into discord once in a while it the way to go.
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I need to put a SaaS together called vibe VCS
At least they were humble and didn't blame it entirely on Cursor... they also blamed Claude.
The first version control system I ever used was CVS and it was first released in 1986 so it was already old and well established when I first came to use it.
Anyone in these past forty years not using a version control system to keep track of their source code have only themselves to blame.
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this guy would have force pushed onto main about 10 mins after this if he did have git
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svn was invented in 2000
CVS was invented in 1986
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Why did the porn star become a network admin after retiring?
She was already an expert in load balancing
It's actually reassuring to see that despite all warnings and doomsayers there will still be opportunities for programmers capable of solving problems using natural intelligence.
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