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For commit messages, the world seems full of bad commit messages, and commit hygiene. Does this do anything to help improve that? What I really want is a bot th

For commit messages, the world seems full of bad commit messages, and commit hygiene. Does this do anything to help improve that? What I really want is a bot that groups my changes into logical commits. I.e. I tell what kind of change I want committed, and it stages only those patches. I noticed today that one of the big hardware stores in Switzerland has started using LLMs to generate descriptions. As expected, it's just drivel: > Do you need a new sealing ring for your washbasin siphon? No problem. The Geberit plug-in seal is exactly what you need. With a diameter of 32/46 mm, it fits perfectly and ensures that everything is tight. It has a height of 5.5 cm and a length of 2.3 cm, making it easy to handle and quick to install. It's simply worth its weight in gold when everything fits at the first attempt and you don't have to worry about whether the quality is right. So, whenever your washbasin siphon needs a refresh, the Geberit plug-in seal with its 3.2 cm is your first choice. Simply insert and you're done. https://www.jumbo.ch/de/bad-sanitaer/installationsmaterial/dichtungen-dichtmittel/geberit-steckdichtung---32--46-mm/p/4437440 https://www.jumbo.ch/de/bad-sanitaer/installationsmaterial/d...

isaacremuant 2y ago
People who are "programmers by coincidence" and think that commit messages or unit tests are a chore and they just do it to satisfy orders from other devs are the first who think have the AI do it is a good idea. There's a reason people feel TDD is hard if they don't want to think about properly modeling their problem. Reducing duplication and finding a good human computer interface with AI is great but if you just don't want to think at all, you'll just dump crap on the next guy and it's natural that you're "worried about being replaced by AI".
- hadat 2y ago
  You sound pretty elevated would like to see your work and how you approach development practices, Secondly of you have actually worked on opensource projects and seen how people write commits you realize that the summaries are not so informative and you would have to go through the code to really know what was changed so having ai help you write messages is for the betterment of others to get a more detailed summary Also this was an afternoon project I did before I had a meeting just for fun
  - isaacremuant 2y ago
    You're misinterpreting my comments as "don't do things". This is HN, do things for the sake of doing them. It's fine. My points are valid though and if you want to argue them on their merits instead of throwing misguided and ignorant insults you're welcome to do so.
    - hadat 2y ago
      I don't see any insults in my reply though apologies if it sounded offensive, my point is only to express the fact that ai would be a great tool for writing commits and though this project is no where close to being usable
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isaacremuant 2y ago

People who are "programmers by coincidence" and think that commit messages or unit tests are a chore and they just do it to satisfy orders from other devs are the first who think have the AI do it is a good idea. There's a reason people feel TDD is hard if they don't want to think about properly modeling their problem. Reducing duplication and finding a good human computer interface with AI is great but if you just don't want to think at all, you'll just dump crap on the next guy and it's natural that you're "worried about being replaced by AI".

hadat 2y ago
You sound pretty elevated would like to see your work and how you approach development practices, Secondly of you have actually worked on opensource projects and seen how people write commits you realize that the summaries are not so informative and you would have to go through the code to really know what was changed so having ai help you write messages is for the betterment of others to get a more detailed summary Also this was an afternoon project I did before I had a meeting just for fun
- isaacremuant 2y ago
  You're misinterpreting my comments as "don't do things". This is HN, do things for the sake of doing them. It's fine. My points are valid though and if you want to argue them on their merits instead of throwing misguided and ignorant insults you're welcome to do so.
  - hadat 2y ago
    I don't see any insults in my reply though apologies if it sounded offensive, my point is only to express the fact that ai would be a great tool for writing commits and though this project is no where close to being usable

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