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by otikik 451 days ago
This is one of the cases where I think AI can help.

Two usecases I can think of: non-native English speakers and ADHD developers. For those groups, having some tool that autofills the first draft of the commit message (that you can then modify) would probably improve their overall commit message quality.

A quick google gave me several projects:

- https://github.com/Nutlope/aicommits

- https://github.com/insulineru/ai-commit

I'm sure there's more.

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$workplace tried this and it is utter garbage (so far) even with full access to the diff & context.

Just as you'd expect from an LLM, it hallucinates a description that overfits the average commit message. It doesn't make a good summary of what changed, and most importantly (though I don't expect it to) why it changed, which is what I need in a commit message.