Versioned code rollback beats sandbox snapshots for undoing agent refactors

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An AI agent renamed methods and changed a function signature in two files but missed a third, causing two tests to fail after a single commit. The author restored working code by pushing the original tree back to the repository in about one second, without needing a live sandbox. A separate experiment showed that a sandbox snapshot restores the entire machine, including untracked artifacts, while versioned code restores only the recorded tree. The author argues that because agent sandboxes are ephemeral and often gone before a failure is noticed, code history offers a more reliable recovery path. The article was sponsored by Tensorlake, and the author states that the experiments were run on that company's infrastructure.

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