Steve Fenton ➜ on Nostr: There's a vibe coding thread where developers are having an epiphany: maybe they ...
There's a vibe coding thread where developers are having an epiphany: maybe they should keep old versions of their code around, just in case their latest inspired hack turns everything into digital spaghetti.
Congratulations—they've just discovered their first professional software delivery practice: Version control. That's from 1972.
Next week, they'll revolutionize development by inventing "testing" after their app crashes in production. Again.
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