Undo for AI-built projects: the whole landscape
Every tool in this space answers the same question ("can I get back to when it worked?") with a different scope. The scope is the whole comparison, so that's the table:
| tool | what it can undo | where it stops |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code rewind | Claude's own edits, within recent sessions on that machine | not other tools' edits, not a permanent archive, not off-machine |
| Cursor checkpoints | agent edits, per conversation | gone when the chat ages out; per-file local history is the fallback |
| GitHub Desktop | anything, at the moments you manually committed | depends entirely on your commit habit; restore takes git knowledge |
| GitButler | anything, via its operations log; built with agents in mind | developer-oriented; lives on your machine |
| Time Machine / Backblaze | whole-computer, hourly-ish | coarse snapshots; awkward for "the project as of Tuesday 2pm" |
| Plyo | whole project, every working state, from any machine, any tool | needs its one-paste setup before the disaster, like everything here |
The honest layering
These aren't rivals; they're layers. The in-tool undos (Claude Code, Cursor) are the fastest fix for a mistake made minutes ago and you should know their shortcuts regardless. A machine backup protects everything else you own. The gap between those layers is the project-level, off-machine, permanent history that survives tool switches and dead laptops, and you get it either by maintaining a git habit (GitHub Desktop), adopting a git power tool (GitButler), or giving the project a home that maintains it automatically (Plyo, free for 3 projects, one paste of setup for any AI tool).
The test for whatever you pick
One question sorts every option: if your laptop died right now, and you'd also switched AI tools last week, could you get yesterday's working version back in five minutes? If the answer is yes, your setup is fine, whichever row of the table it came from.
Plyo is the home for AI-built projects — every version saved, one click to undo, one click to publish, plus a safety check, visitor counts and backups. Free to start: 3 projects, no card needed.
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