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eighttrigrams

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    Comment #49241875

    > write hilariously-verbose commit messages […] detailing not only what changed but why it changed this can come in super-handy from time to time

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    Comment #49237454

    > I hardly use an editor anymore, and I'm not alone. All that matters is who is signing off on the commit. In such a context I won't distinguish between me and an agent. But same, …

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    Although that would be an option (I've considered commit on every edit at one point), what I actually ended up doing is that I hook into all Bash tool calls, look if there's a git …

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    Comment #49235163

    I'll probably be annoyed enough soon that I want that level of granularity, too

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    Comment #49235145

    I take care of that in two ways, 1) is via claude hooks, I make sure these are tagged as claude, 2) my sandboxed agents have git env vars set, with the same effect.

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    In this article I continue the more critical line of thought I began in Mindless Drones . I hate AI for what it makes us become, yet still hold that there is no point in not using …

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