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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 101 points 1 day ago (7 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.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago (7 children)

CVS was, for the longest time, the only player in the FLOSS world. It was bad, but so were commercial offerings, and it was better than RCS.

It's been completely supplanted by SVN, specifically written to be CVS but not broken, which is about exactly as old as git. If you find yourself using git lfs, you might want to have a look at SVN.

Somewhat ironically RCS is still maintained, last patch a mere 19 months ago to this... CVS repo. Dammit I did say "completely supplanted" already didn't I. Didn't consider the sheer pig-headedness of the openbsd devs.

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 21 points 1 day ago

And Claude, off course.

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[–] Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org 147 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

this guy would have force pushed onto main about 10 mins after this if he did have git

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And then lost the reflog by rm -rfing the project and cloning it again.

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[–] zovits@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If anything it feels like we're the doomsayers trying to warn people that their AI bullshit won't ever work and they're just not listening as they lay off the masses and push insecure and faulty code.

[–] thebeardedpotato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And then years from now when this all comes to a head, they’re gonna hire some poor schmucks to fix that crappy code

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 42 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.

[–] jad@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

Sounds to me like a glorified keylogger 😭

[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 90 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the elusive AI "programmers".

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

Yeah this what you get when you code based on vibes.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] Laser@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Giloron@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

🤮

But actually...

It is good for some things. It even got support for staging files recently.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

if this is real, that's the kind of people who should be worried about being replaced by an ai

it's also Claude

lmao

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was playing around with it. It's neat tech. It's interesting all the side projects I can spin up now. It absolutely cannot replace an engineer with a brain.

I've caught so many little things I've had to fix, change. It's an amazing way to kick off a project, but I can't ever trust blindly what it's doing. It can get the first 80% of a small project off the ground, and then you're going to spend 7x as long on that last 20% prompt engineering it to get it right. At which point I'm usually like "I could have just done it by now".

I see kids now blindly trusting what it's doing, and man are they going to fall face first in the corporate world. I honestly see a place for vibe coding in the corporate world. However I also see you still needing a brain to stitch it all together too.

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[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

just press Ctrl + Z several times! /s

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

subversion. those were the days...

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Was my first experience with source control, a bunch of Gary's Mod mods were distributed that way, think I recall wiretool doing that, spacebuild was for sure, predated my work use by like 5ish years.

I didn't hate it but definitely prefer git, but I'll take literally anything over not having it,

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[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

~/Dev/Project/file.ext~2025-03-20-Backup-6

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[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Ahh yes, programming by vibe. The vibe is always dumbass. Just steal code that has already been explained to you like everyone else.

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[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I wonder how you managed revisions to punch cards...

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