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Why are you having it commit or write commit messages unless you have no idea what it’s doing?


Who likes writing commit messages? In the abstract, perfectly spherical developer mindset, I'd spend hours writing the best commit message to go with the most elegant and perfect, beautiful code that I'm comitting, but the real world with meetings and life demands is greasier and grimer than that. Letting the LLM start off with the commit messages for me to edit with additional details has been a boon to productivity. Staring at an empty $EDITOR my brain goes blank, but with a framework of what's going on, I find the details for me to add flow more easily.




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