A quote from Kenton Varda

Kenton Varda (creator of Cap'n Proto, Sandstorm, and former Google engineer) declared a personal moratorium on AI-written change descriptions — PR and commit messages included.

His critique: AI-generated descriptions spend paragraphs restating what is already obvious from reading the code diff, while omitting the higher-level framing a reviewer actually needs. The purpose, the trade-offs, the broader context — the things that help someone decide whether the changes make sense — are precisely what the AI fails to capture.

The quote was posted by Simon Willison as a short stand-alone note.