Comment by Cthulhu_

Comment by Cthulhu_ 2 days ago

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I don't read most of my (work) emails either, but I think the most important part of AI generated meeting notes is that they're searchable / indexable, in the off chance that you do need to find or refer to something mentioned in an article.

But to be blunt / irreverent, it's the same with Git commit messages or technical documentation; nobody reads them unless they need them, and only the bits that are important to them at that point in time.

jon-wood 2 days ago

I can't help but see the irony of complaining that people don't read git commit messages or technical documentation in the comments for a product to assist in code review.

You know what really, really, helps while doing code review? Good commit messages, and more generally, good commit practices so that each commit is describing a set of changes which make sense together. If you have that then code review becomes much easier, you just step through each commit in turn and you can see how the code got to be where it is now, rather than Github's default "here's everything, good luck" view.

The other thing that helps? Technical documentation that describes why things are as they are, and what we're trying to achieve with a piece of work.

  • cosmosgenius a day ago

    Maybe AI doing rebase, code chunking and commits will help? This kinda makes sense. Reviewable+mergables chunks do make the code way faster to merge.