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Zhuan Zhi Kame @kameengineer

Adapting To AI: Do We Still Need Git Commit Messages?

Rethinking git commit messages in the age of AI: do we still need them? AI can summarize code faster & more efficiently, but humans still need context for unclear bugs.

There are things we never really thought about before the rise of AI, but recently, it feels like our minds have been racing to consider these questions.
For example, we want to save time by letting AI handle tasks like writing git commit messages. But putting aside the current issues with accuracy for a moment, the real question we should be asking is: do we even still need git commit messages?

AI can summarize code faster and more efficiently than humans (which also happens to be one of AI's strengths right now).
From past work experience, almost no one looks at git commit messages unless t...