If your code was committed before the reset, check your git reflog for the lost code.
replyhave you tried to recover it with git reflog?
replyhttps://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-24-git-reflog-recove...
Guess you’ve sorted it but it might be in the session memory in your root folder. I’ve recovered some things this way.
reply> but could not recreate for a good hour.
replyFor certain work, we'll have to let go of this desire.
If you limit yourself to whatever you can recreate, then you are effectively limiting the work you can produce to what you know.
you should limit your output (manual or assisted) to a level that is well under your understanding ceiling.
replyKernighan’s Law states that debugging is twice as hard as writing. how do you ever intend on debugging something you can’t even write?
It's simple, they'll just let the LLM debug it!
replyThis is why I believe the need for actually good engineers will never go away because LLMs will never be perfect.
Exactly. It's a force multiplier - sometimes the direction is wrong.
replySame week I went into a deep rabbit hole with Claude and at no point did it try to steer me away from pursuing this direction, even though it was a dead end.