Comment on I've lately been making my git commit messages with AI

• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Precision > concision && accuracy > concision. Just use your commit message. I’d rather see an account of a code change from the viewpoint of the change’s author than a shorter reformulation, even if that reformulation did come from a human who knew the problem space and wasn’t prone to making shit up on the fly.

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  • balder1993@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The problem is people are lazy and most places I’ve been, propele make bad commit messages and often very non informative.

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    • TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d rather see no commit message than an AI-generated one.

      Also if I wasn’t misinterpreting OP, it sounded from the post I was responding to like OP provided a summary to the LLM along with code. If OP’s writing a summary anyway, why not just proofread that and use that as the commit message rather than involving an LLM in the middle of the process?

      Even in a hypothetical where the company hired human tech writers to write commit messages for developers, I’d rather have in the commit message what the developer had to say rather than the possible misinterpretation of the tech writer.

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