AI Coding Tip 001 - Commit Your Code Before Asking For Help From an AI Assistant
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Developers should commit code before letting AI assistants make changes to avoid mixing manual edits with AI modifications. This workflow involves finishing manual tasks, running tests, committing with clear messages, then prompting the AI. The approach enables clean diffing of AI changes and instant rollback using git reset --hard HEAD if the AI breaks functionality.
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