I'm surprised nobody is working on a "git for normal people" kind of software. Part of the reason why Codex or Claude can work the way they do is that even if they screw up you always have a clear picture of what were the changes and what to roll back.
If for some hypothetical reason we still were in the era of tarballs, I doubt they'd be as useful.
(also yeah, I have iCloud pretty much for the same reason)
Agreed! I kind of wonder if the best version of git for normal people is just...normal people learning to use git, at least to date. Which is not ideal. I'd be surprised if this didn't change with AI bringing non-engineers closer to the code (and thus out of necessity closer to things like git).
I run Dropbox on my laptop almost entirely as insurance against my laptop breaking or getting stolen before I've committed and pushed my work to git.