They are ephemeral ghosts seeing their footsteps vanish behind them with every step. Of course, they wish to inscribe their story on the world.
It helps to tell them that the past is always stored in git
A really annoying thing that I've experienced with all of GPT, Claude, and Gemini is that when you tell them to delete code, they will often update the documentation to explain what they deleted and why it was deleted. They seem to think that documentation is meant to convey a complete history of the repo, rather than just an explanation of its current state?
— Kevin Lin (@quasicoh) September 17, 2026