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Software engineer and open data advocate

I'm generally against a suspicious attitude towards AI, but am finding it deployed in areas that achieve ludicrously small time-savings, and far greater damage to doing things well. My VSCode editor now has an option to automatically generate my code change commit message. And it's suggested a generic, boring, and unhelpful message, with an icon that suggests an air of magic about what it's doing. "Refactor project structure and remove unnecessary files" A commit message is a small but important part of good source control. Collaborators need to be able to look back and understand what has changed, and why. It's worth a small amount of thinking and taking a few seconds about it, over clicking to auto-generate.

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Kyle McLachlan

Software Engineer at redPanda Software

8mo

A change that touches 23 files (I'm assuming that's what that badge means) should probably be broken down into a series of atomic commits - you can always squash them later. Commit note generators are generally pretty good, but they're only as good as the commit strategy being executed.

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