Great article! The distinction between "AI can write the code, but it can't reason about systems" perfectly captures why so many AI-built projects feel brittle.
When you say "save working code every 30 minutes," are you using version control commits, or something else? I am curious how you balance granular checkpoints with keeping a clean commit history.
Yeah, pretty much saving working code every 30 minutes.
When I’m using tools like Cursor, the model shows the changes it made, and I made it to require me to click accept to actually keep them. So part of “saving” is really about locking in those accepted changes before they vanish.
I also commit to Git pretty often, usually a few times within that 30 min window. AI makes editing fast, but deciding what to change takes longer. So frequent commits keep things safe without creating noise.
Sometimes I’ll batch a full feature into one commit for clarity, but most of the time I just commit whenever something works and feels stable.
Very interesting read! I have been starting to think that I want to learn more about AI and how to apply it to research. But I feel like I don't even know where to start
Great article! The distinction between "AI can write the code, but it can't reason about systems" perfectly captures why so many AI-built projects feel brittle.
When you say "save working code every 30 minutes," are you using version control commits, or something else? I am curious how you balance granular checkpoints with keeping a clean commit history.
Yeah, pretty much saving working code every 30 minutes.
When I’m using tools like Cursor, the model shows the changes it made, and I made it to require me to click accept to actually keep them. So part of “saving” is really about locking in those accepted changes before they vanish.
I also commit to Git pretty often, usually a few times within that 30 min window. AI makes editing fast, but deciding what to change takes longer. So frequent commits keep things safe without creating noise.
Sometimes I’ll batch a full feature into one commit for clarity, but most of the time I just commit whenever something works and feels stable.
Thanks, Jenny.
Very interesting read! I have been starting to think that I want to learn more about AI and how to apply it to research. But I feel like I don't even know where to start
This is so good. Thanks for writing this!