[majormajor]

You can leave commit messages or comments without spamming your history with every "now I'm inspecting this file..." or "oops, that actually works differently than I expected" transcript.

In fact, I'd wager that all that excess noise would make it harder to discern meaningful things in the future than simply distilling the meaningful parts of the session into comments and commit messages.

[AlexCoventry]

IMO, you should do both. The cost of intellectual effort is dropping to zero, and getting an AI to scan through a transcript for relevant details is not going to cost much at all.

[devmor]

Those messages are part of the linguistic context used to generate the code, though. Don’t confuse them for when humans (or human written programs) display progress messages.

If they aren’t important for your specific purposes, you can summarize them with an LLM.