Code as an Artifact: Versioning AI-Generated Code in the Agentic Era
Code as an artifact means treating the source you commit as a regenerable output of a process — the prompts, plans, and agent context that produced it — rather than the durable end product of software development. When AI agents generate most of your code, the spec and the conversation become the real artifact, and versioning must capture both the code and the process behind it. This guide explains why traditional Git falls short, how to attribute every line to AI or human, and which workflows and tools keep AI-generated code trustworthy at scale. ...