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Commit description as a thinking tool

130 points · 78 comments · yedhukrishnan

  1. einpoklum · · focus · HN ↗
    > Now we are in the era of agentic coding, where everything from code to commit descriptions is written by AI.

    No, we are not. Sure, there is a lot of slop-coding/vibe-coding going on, but not much of it in serious code. In my experience and to my knowledge.

    Of course, I encounter the opposite problem with humans: They often don't bother to write proper commit messages; and many tend to squash them in favor of giant single-commits which just say "Implemented feature #123".

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