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by bee_rider 1250 days ago
In general I’m pretty skeptical of the ability to get anything deep out of these chat bots, but I think it is wrong to say that the generated commit message is worse than none. The programmer still read the generated message and OK’d it. So, it tells us something about their intent, in the sense that they thought the message summarized it sufficiently (or, they could just OK without reading it, but that’s just lying with extra steps, they weren’t trustworthy in the first place).
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> The programmer still read the generated message and OK’d it.

You think? For some programmers writing commit messages is like ... i don't know because i'm not one of them... some kind of torture?. I bet the kind of person who likes this service would otherwise put in blank commit messages or at best ticket IDs.