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Commit description as a thinking tool

130 points · 78 comments · yedhukrishnan

  1. flopsamjetsam · · focus · HN ↗
    I sometimes use the AI prompt to do a similar thing: I'm struggling with a problem, or putting my ideas down in a coherent manner, so I write a prompt, and in doing so the idea crystallises for me. I've tried doing this just in a text editor, but there's something about having the next action be "submit this to X" that clicks my brain into higher gear.

    I suppose it's very similar to drafting a letter or an email to someone.

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