Version control for everything: why AI agents need git for non-code tasks
Agentic coding tools have taken off, but non-programming use cases lag because they lack version control. The author argues that without git-like guardrails, LLMs can't safely edit docs, calendars, or issues. He proposes a proxy layer for staging changes or moving everything into git, noting that Jane Street's code-review-in-comments workflow makes LLM involvement trivial. The post concludes that better version control benefits humans too, and points to local-first software and Irmin as relevant resources.
It’s not just agent-style LLMs that would benefit from this integration, _I_ would be more productive if all of my tools had branches, version history, and atomic changes.