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> It isn’t stupid if it works. If this allows an engineer to spend 15 mins less time while generating good enough PR descriptions, that’s a huge win... It can'
by tablespoon 4y ago
> It isn’t stupid if it works. If this allows an engineer to spend 15 mins less time while generating good enough PR descriptions, that’s a huge win...
It can't work, unless it's hooked up to a brain scanner and can read your thoughts.
It seems more like dumb thing that people who don't know what they're doing will think is smart.
- baq 4y agoYou see a tool which doesn’t do all you want it to do and say it’s useless where it clearly can make the act of actually doing what you want simpler and faster. I don’t understand why you think it’ll do 100% if 80% is already good enough and very helpful to get the last 20% done.
- tablespoon 4y agoIt's a path to laziness and skipping the 20% that's actually helpful in favor of a useless 80%. I see a useful use case for using a tool like this after the commit messages are written (e.g. auto-generate these summaries on the fly when browsing history), but using it to write commit messages themselves is a terrible idea.
- FridgeSeal 4y agoThe reality is that writing a decent commit message, by some reasonable standard involve information not encoded in the contents of the commit (or any linked data). The contents of the commit are almost a side-effect of the actual work. As such, no amount of “gpt magic” will solve this.
- Aeolun 4y agoI think the biggest problem is GPT is very confident in its mistakes. If it writes something incorrect, and you don’t know it’s doing it it’ll go completely unchallenged. It’s correct often enough that you can get complacent.