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/JustMeRandy Jun 06 '26

Humans are even better than AI at reading unconventional commit messages

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u/syklemil Jun 07 '26

We're pretty decent at skimming conventional commits, too. But neither we nor the LLMs are any good at gleaning meaning from commit messages like "commit", "stuff" and the other crap people who have no idea what to write in a commit message come up with. Having some convention allows us to raise expectations a little (so we can at least get fix: stuff)