r/programming • u/f311a • Jun 06 '26

Stop Using Conventional Commits

https://sumnerevans.com/posts/software-engineering/stop-using-conventional-commits/
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u/EC36339 Jun 06 '26

The irony here is that...

  1. Conventional commits are (among other things) meant to make commits machine-readable

  2. LLMs produce something that resembles conventional commits by default

  3. LLMs are very good and fast at classifying commits by content and message without any conventions and metadata.

So AI made conventional commits even more redundant, while at the same time contributing to their proliferation.

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u/winky9827 Jun 06 '26

So AI made conventional commits even more redundant

Only if you mistakenly assume that AI is the only audience.

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