It writes more informative commits than I could ever make so I’m just reading what it says and mostly copy/pasting completely most of the time, I write all of the changes I’ve made into an LLM with a large context window and it write a very detailed commit not just with a title but with bullet points describing each of the changes precisely
You realize you don’t need to list all your changes in the commit message, right? Anyone can blame or diff said changes.
The commit message is meant to be used for the high level stuff, the intent, representing / connecting progress towards a larger work item. Insert other reasons that aren’t saying literally what was changed.
Also one should use their time better if they are spending so much time writing commit messages they feel the need to automate it. Commit messages are rarely read ever again, it is not okay to be spending a lot of time on them. That’s not an excuse to write bad commit messages, but you have to balance the time cost with expected utility.
And an addendum to the above. Describing what you did without reasoning, context, or other information that isnt captured within the changes itself makes your commit messages entirely useless. It makes IDE-inserted in-line blame information useless as well.
Kaldo@kbin.social 1 year ago
If a glorified autocomplete algorithm can write more informative and concise commit messages than you, the actual author behind the code, I think you need to sit down and think long and hard what that actually implies.
douglasg14b@programming.dev 1 year ago
And what does it imply?
That an AI might be better at writing documentation than the average dev, who are largely inept at writing good documentation?
This sort of post is just bad faith, doesn’t actually make any conclusions, and is just a disguised way to shit on others as opposed to contributing to the discussion at hand.
DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 year ago
it implies that the author of the code has no idea what they were doing.
Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Don’t ever call me a glorified autocomolete algorithm again