Comment by viraptor
1 year ago
There's no clear threshold with an universal answer. Sometimes prompting will be easier, sometimes writing things yourself. You'll have to add some debugging time to both sides in practice. Also, you can be opportunistic - you're going to write a commit anyway, right? A good commit message will be close to the prompt anyway, so why not start with that and see if you want to write your own or not?
> I also get to do a code review.
Don't you review your own code after some checkpoint too?
why leave the commit message for the human to write? have the LLM start off and add relevant details it missed.
Because the commit message is pure signal. You can reformat it or as useless info, but otherwise, generating it will require writing it. Generating it from code is a waste, because you're trying to distil that same signal from messy code.