[simonw]

Honestly, Claude writes better commit messages than most people.

Personally I've mostly given in to letting it commit for me now, though I do occasionally take over and hand-write the messages if it's a particularly important concept and Claude's is too verbose.

Codex/GPT-x defaults to one-line commit messages, which are too short. Claude likes to write several paragraphs, which is usually too long.

If you tell it how to commit properly once per session it will stick with your standards for the rest of that session, and you can put that in AGENTS.md if you can be bothered to.

[VulgarExigency]

The agents write much better commit messages than me, at least.

They also write better PR descriptions. At work we have a PR authoring skill and we’ve included an instruction for it to write a reviewer guide that tells the most logical way to review the code and I’ve found that really helps, so much so that I’m creating a tool to have “literate” PR reviews, where it constructs a narrative interwoven with diffs.