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This had me crack up!

I used to have a colleague (senior engineer) who never cared to write a single line in Pull Request descriptions, as if other people had to magically know what he meant to achieve with such changes.

Now? His PRs have a full page description with "bulleted summaries of bulleted summaries"!


My colleague had a problem with commit messages, so now they're all written by AI. I don't know what depth of hell he managed to get the prompt from, but they're all now in the format "Updated /path/to/file: fixed issue in thingamabob", which means they're all at least 200 characters long and half of it is the file path, an absolutely pointless thing to put in a commit message. The best part is that whenever you look at GitLab or GitHub, instead of seeing the commit message next to the file you just see the file name again, then the message is cut off.

Out of curiosity, with it taking up that much of the message, is it the local file path on their computer?

No, just relative within the repo. Some repositories just happen to have a very deep folder structure.

Location: Europe

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Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems.

My career has spanned high-growth startups, successful acquisitions, and major enterprise research labs.


I'm reaching out here.

This is a surprisingly sparse posting. "somewhere in Europe" means there's a 2.2%~ chance I can hire you without needing to involve a third party like Deel.


Microsoft truly is the reverse King Midas!


your comment is off-topic and it'll probably be removed by the moderators but I cracked up laughing reading it!


Noam Chomsky in a recent interview had a similar take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7S0zHIDMaI&ab_channel=Anime...


I think OP was referring to the LLVM compiler tools, not the LLM (Large Language Model)


> there was no other EU country that spoke English (my preferred language)

you've missed a whole country named Ireland which is in EU


And another named Malta. Much smaller, for sure, but with way better weather.


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