Developer loses hard-won AI coding fix after skipping a basic Git commit

A developer working on the tgo project, which transpiles JavaScript libraries like argparse and lodash into Go, lost a breakthrough compilation fix after failing to commit the working code to Git. After an overnight AI-assisted session in Cursor finally got argparse to compile, the developer launched a second AI agent concurrently to fix unrelated regressions without first saving the working state. Hours of follow-up AI sessions failed to recover the fix, as the tools lacked the stateful context needed to reconstruct what had been built. The root cause was skipping a fundamental GitOps practice: committing code the moment a meaningful milestone is reached. The incident serves as a cautionary reminder that AI coding tools cannot reliably reconstruct complex changes from chat history alone, making frequent commits essential.