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by gkfasdfasdf 1252 days ago
To everyone hating on this...I think a GPT-3 summary of a diff is a great thing to have, because it's a summary of the change and thus can be quicker to grok than picking through a diff. Also this doesn't seem to preclude a developer adding their own text to the commit (the why, etc). Finally, if the summary looks weird/incoherent it could serve as a signal to the developer that the commit needs more work.
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It is not about hate. If there is tool, perhaps GPT-3, that is really good a summarizing code diffs. It should be integrated in your IDE or other tooling to summarize diffs on the fly, when I need that summarization. Not when I commit a diff. Thereby, we could all profit from improvements of that tool over time, and everybody could use it in his or her own language. That is strictly better than running that tool once and integrating it hard with the source code.