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Re:How version control will evolve for the agent boom by skydhash on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:35AM (#48847650)
> I think it will be second nature to ask "how did you arrive at the code".

What about “Do you understand the code well enough to argue about it, its past, and possible evolution paths”?

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Re:How version control will evolve for the agent boom by sdesol on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:52AM (#48847976)
I think that would be implied by "how did you arrive at the code". I think the conversation will revove around how did you "guide" things.
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Re:How version control will evolve for the agent boom by skydhash on Thursday July 09, 2026 @07:47PM (#48853996)
Not really, I don't think I every care about the how. I want to mostly know the trigger of a change (a bug, possible feature, or just tidying) and what are the impacts if that changes is included in the codebase. That is often just a paragraph or two.

The workflow is mostly worthless, unless it can generalize and evolve into a process. And that is more worthy of a blog post or a presentation.

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