I was really excited to try this out in a EAP release a while ago… and I found nearly no use for it. The auto scaffolded commit messages seemed like a cool app

I was really excited to try this out in a EAP release a while ago… and I found nearly no use for it. The auto scaffolded commit messages seemed like a cool application: they were overly wordy and missed the point of a commit message entirely by just dryly listing out the changes in each class. The explain code feature seemed useful at first, but it wasn’t really much better than just reading the code. Had the benefit of working on some stuff I hadn’t worked on before too! Without links to the codebase, or any sort of inline tooltip, you just get a big paragraph in a sidebar thats difficult to grok and doesn’t really explain anything except what’s already self evident. I’ve reached AI disenchantment. Sorry JetBrains.