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by isaacremuant 509 days ago
Commits are annoying to write is in the same space as "variable names are annoying to write".

Communicating intent should be trivial or, if it's not, put effort into it because communication with that future dev may be essential .

Now, maybe some bullet points may suffice and quickly be reshaped by AI to make it more succinct and clear but you still should make the effort. The more you do it, the more it becomes an easy part.

The problem is when you copy and paste the same info in slightly different ways in many places and I can appreciate some form of suggestion around "you missed explaining why you want to change this part".

There's a space for AIb but it isn't "so that I don't need to think".