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Sone of the best engineers I've seen use commit messages to explain their intent, sometimes even in many sentences, below the message.

I bet, without trying to be snarky, that most AI users don't even know you can commit with an editor instead of -m "message" and write more detail.

It's good that AI fans are finding out that commits are important, now don't reinvent the wheel and just spend a couple minutes writing each commit message. You'll thank yourself later.



This gave me a good chuckle. Anyone doing "good" engineering with coding agents are having them write detailed, high signal, low noise git commits... it's table stakes.




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