How to Write with an LLM | Hacker News
It slows things down a bit, but in the best possible way. It has helped immensely to improve the depth of my understanding of the agent-generated code. When agents are doing everything its way too easy to “skim” diffs and not really absorb them. I always prided myself on my technical writing, and commit messages and PRs were a great place to hone that skill. I found that I missed it and my work is better now I’ve reclaimed that part of my old job back. reply We have one dev who uses LLMs to write the code, but still commits by hand. Most of his messages are of the type above, and none of them are useful. reply Even before coding harnesses become mainstream, a lot of tools offered to automatically generate commit messages based on the diff (I think JetBrains IDEs started to offer it very early) and I always cringed when I've seen it. The reason why I don't like diff-base commit messages is because they are redundant. If I want an LLM-generated summary of the diff, I can easily generate