So you're vibing with an AI coder. Maybe it's Lovable, Bolt, or just the Replit ghost. And it feels like magic. You type a few words, and poof, a full-blown React component appears. It's an unbelievable accelerator. For a while.
Then you hit the wall.
You ask the AI to add one more feature before you launch, and it cheerfully breaks your signup flow. Now you have no way to undo the change. Days turn into weeks as you try to untangle the mess. Your potential users are waiting. Your competition isn't. One person on Reddit put it perfectly:
"I was using Replit's AI to build a small flask app. It was amazing at first, but now I have this massive main.py file, things are breaking, and the AI just keeps suggesting things that break it more. I dont know what change caused the error and I feel completely stuck."
That feeling? It's the sound of your project outgrowing its playground. The AI gave you a stupendous head start, but without a way to safely experiment and recover from mistakes, every change feels risky. You need a safety net called Git. Set it up in 10 minutes, then sprint to launch.
