Quoting Kenton Varda
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8th July 2026
I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team.
AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code that could easily be seen by looking at the code, but omitting the higher-level framing needed to understand broadly what the code is doing.
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