3:47 AM, Tuesday
The Slack notification woke me up. Production was down. Revenue streaming to zero. My AI coding assistant had "optimized" our dependencies. One click. Package.json rewritten. Build configs corrupted. TypeScript errors cascading through 47 files.
I spent the next 6 hours manually reconstructing what the AI had destroyed in 3 seconds. Git history was useless—the AI had made dozens of "improvements" across multiple commits, all tangled together. No clean rollback point. Just chaos.
Final damage: $12,000 in lost revenue, missed deadlines, and a team that lost trust in AI tools. But here's the thing—the AI wasn't wrong to try helping. It just needed a safety net.
The Realization
Every developer using AI tools is one bad suggestion away from this nightmare. Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Claude—they're all powerful, but none of them have a proper undo button. Git isn't enough when AI makes 20 changes across 10 files in 30 seconds.
That's why we built SnapBack. Not to replace AI assistants, but to make them safe. Every AI action triggers an automatic checkpoint. Recovery takes one click. You get to move fast and break things—because you can always snap back.
We're in early days—currently protecting 55+ developers in private alpha who have created over 1,000 snapshots. The system works, the speed is real (<200ms snapshots), and we're confident in what we're building. If you use AI to code, you'll want SnapBack.