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url: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/kenton-varda/ title: "A quote from Kenton Varda" author: Simon Willison date_fetched: 2026-07-11 date_published: 2026-07-08

A quote from Kenton Varda

I declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (such as PR and commit messages). I had found them to be worse than useless when it comes to reviewing code: they spend paragraphs describing things that are obvious from reading the code, while omitting the higher-level framing that I need to understand the broader purpose and decide if the changes make sense.

— Kenton Varda

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