AI will rewrite half your site

You'll ask AI to fix one thing on your website. It'll confidently rewrite half the code.

At some point this happens to everyone vibe coding a site. The pages that worked perfectly yesterday are broken today, and you can't remember what changed or when. It costs people days of rebuilding work they'd already finished.

It keeps happening because AI doesn't edit your site the way you would. It regenerates whole files, so a small request can touch code you never asked it to go near. You can't prevent it, but you can make it cost you nothing when it happens.

The fix is version control, and the tool is called git. Git takes a snapshot of your entire site every time you tell it to. Think of save points in a video game. When something goes wrong, you jump back to the last good save and carry on.

It's free, it lives inside your own project folder, and there's nothing to sign up for.

You don't need to learn it either. Ask Claude to set it up in one line: set up git for this project, and commit every time something works. From then on, every working version of your site is saved for good.

I commit every time something works, before I let AI near the next change. When the AI breaks something at 11 at night, you roll back ten minutes and keep building. The scariest part of vibe coding your own website becomes a non-event.

It takes ten minutes to set up. Do it before your next session, while everything still works.