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Optimistic UI for AI coding: writing to disk with snapshot undo
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The post discusses implementing optimistic UI for AI coding by writing to disk with snapshot undo, allowing for seamless experimentation and error correction.
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(OP here) I decided to let the AI coder write directly to the file system without human approval - to accelerate the process, but built a Python-based snapshot mechanism to make it safe to be able to revert the changes. Happy to answer any questions about diff/restore implementation.
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