alt Hacker NewsI love this stuff as a hobbyist, but professionally I can't help but think this is all obsolete in the age of agent-driven development. I wish jj was around a decade ago.
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Let's say that this is obsolete for professional programming. Can't us hobbyists be left alone to our hobby by the LLM demoralization patrol?
I've found agents like Claude are absolute ass at fixing any halfway complex merge conflict. I won't trust them to do it.
I have been using Claude for 95% of the mechanical coding for months, and jj has proven to be more relevant than not for me. Because it is a better VCS tool than git, it allows to work with the firehose of commits much more seamlessly.
Actually it’s more relevant than ever since agents trivially parallelize work, but it still needs to be validated together. You can work on individual branches in worktrees and have the ‘megamerge’ in yet another.
I disagree. Easily reviewing and combining multiple streams of parallel work is more valuable than ever.