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I use AI prolifically for coding, but I haven't crossed the chasm of letting it do mutable operations on my vcs. It tends to revert changes too eagerly. Commit

I use AI prolifically for coding, but I haven't crossed the chasm of letting it do mutable operations on my vcs. It tends to revert changes too eagerly. Commit messages written by it usually miss the point of the commit and end up too verbose and need to be modified or completely rewritten in many cases. I feel like prose needs to capture style which is unique per individual which makes it difficult to do well.

cstrahan 5mo ago
I agree on the commit messages not being ideal, though a bit of by-hand rewording goes a long way. Recently let Claude Code handle some commit history clean up: split a couple commits, reordered some, and identified some that could/should have been fixups, and reduced the number of commits from ~70 down to ~40. Very happy with the results and time savings. FWIW, here’s my interactive rebase skill: https://github.com/cstrahan/claude-plugins/blob/main/skills/git-rebase-interactive/SKILL.md https://github.com/cstrahan/claude-plugins/blob/main/skills/...