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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Don't trust anyone who can't spell 'oops'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Why learn an archaic and honestly horrifying command line interface, possibly the worst CLI ever made in the history of computing...when nice normal graphical interfaces work better, have discoverability, have troubleshooting tools, and don't require memorizing scripture?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

I need to put a SaaS together called vibe VCS

[–] [email protected] 33 points 14 hours ago

Fake developer doesn't use version control. Big surprise.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Acts like SVN and CVS didn't exist

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Also like Reddit did

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago

Why did the porn star become a network admin after retiring?

She was already an expert in load balancing

[–] [email protected] 34 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry, I'm sure Cursor will be able to clobber your git history and force push to master any day now

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

we just need a little more AI

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I want SVN little explorer icons back! I want to forget Jazz RTC.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's not an AI model, it's an IDE

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago

My comment stands

[–] [email protected] 64 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

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
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)
  • Program-1.5-DeleteThis.zip
  • Program-1.6-ScuffedDontUse.zip
  • CanWeDeleteThesePlease.txt (last edit 8 months ago)

Inspired by a small collaboration project from a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I did that with documents in my Uni years.
By the end, I was using ISO timestamps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

If we're talking actual builds then zip files are perfectly fine as long as the revs make chronological sense.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Just save your prompts and vibes in a Google doc dude

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago

Good thing it's deterministic, oh wait 😃

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

You could literally just save a copy to your desktop before you're going to do something sensitive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

That's why I take a screenshot of my desktop before something stupid just in case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Or use VCS like a normal dev

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Forget git. Sending zip files into discord once in a while it the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Especially if they're .zip files full of military secrets.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

I'm not in any war thunder servers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Congrats discord now owns your code forever

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

I'd feel sorry for them. My personal projects will only harm them.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

SUN is from 4.6 billion years ago, you mortal beings

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

I’m a software developer so I’ve never seen that thing you’re talking about, but check your sources, I believe it’s actually from 1982: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems

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[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"Developer"
"my" 4 months of "work"

Those are the ones easily replaced by AI. 99% of stuff "they" did was done by AI anyway!

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 day ago (14 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You need a USB C “Power Ctrl+Z” key. Unlike the regular Ctrl+Z key one of these bad boys is capable of reversing edits across system reboots until as far back as when you originally plugged it in.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago

Sounds to me like a glorified keylogger 😭

[–] [email protected] 10 points 20 hours ago

just press Ctrl + Z several times! /s

[–] [email protected] 189 points 1 day ago

At least they were humble and didn't blame it entirely on Cursor... they also blamed Claude.

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