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Commit description as a thinking tool

130 points · 78 comments · yedhukrishnan

  1. WD-42 · · focus · HN ↗
    Writing is thinking in every situation, not just limited to commit messages. This is a fact that I'm concerned people are forgetting, or worse never understood to begin with.
    1. ModernMech · · focus · HN ↗
      Did you think about this comment or are you just repeating something you heard and that’s been said in every discussion on HN about writing and AI?
      1. customguy · · focus · HN ↗
        The insight that writing helps to reflect on and structure thoughts is as old as it is trivially obvious.

        > If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.

        - George Orwell

        1. customguy · · focus · HN ↗
          Turns out he never said that, sorry: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quotle.info&#x2F;who-said&#x2F;if-people-cannot-write-well-they-cannot-think-well&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quotle.info&#x2F;who-said&#x2F;if-people-cannot-write-well-the...

          I still think there is some truth in it, just but it could be expressed less crudely and less arrogantly. For me trying to think honestly is way more important than how &quot;sophisticated&quot; it is.

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