I'm comfortable with git, and recently learned mercurial, and I've concluded: commits are the wrong abstraction.
Work-in-progress and finished work are different concepts. Rebases and even branches are for WIP. Signing is for finished work. Timestamps and authors change for WIP.
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AI agents (OpenClaw, Hermes Agent etc) seem to be increasingly standardising their design.
You have a UI for the markdown files writable by the agent (sometimes just Obsidian) plus a set of CLI tools for performing actions.
I've seen so many new CLIs recently too.
In many respects I feel an LLM benefits from a monorepo. I've vibe coded a bunch of helper CLIs recently and end up repeating the same preferences for all of them.
I want all my CLIs to use clippy, parse arguments with clap, etc. They're distinct tools in distinct repos though.
I'm playing with Zeal/Dash so I can view stdlib docs offline.
(I've been coding on public transport recently, without a reliable data connection.)
Anyone have tips for making the most of this setup? AFAICT docsets are basically HTML underneath.