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The three-branch thing is so smart.

It took a while for me to realize it, and frankly, it's kind of embarrassing that I didn't think of it immediately.

It is, after all, what many of us would do in our manual SW development. But when using an LLM that seems pretty good, we just assume we don't need to follow all the usual good practices.

Does the LLM make commits along the way? I think I’m missing why you need all these branches vs git reset —hard once it figures out the bug?

Aider, by default, makes commits after each change (so that you can easily tell it to "undo"). Once a feature is done, you manually squash the commits if desired. Some people love it, some hate it.

You can configure it not to autocommit, although I suppose the "undo" command won't work in that case.

The just sounds like ⌘-Z with extra steps.

Aider doesn't run in your editor. Undo in editor won't undo Aider's changes.

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