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shaky-carrouseltoday at 11:46 AM1 replyview on HN

> Write commit messages as a human developer would — describe only what the code change does.

The undercover mode prompt was generated using AI.


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kingstnaptoday at 12:30 PM

All these companies use AIs for writing these prompts.

But AI aren't actually very good at writing prompts imo. Like they are superficially good in that they seem to produce lots of vaguely accurate and specific text. And you would hope the specificity would mean it's good.

But they sort of don't capture intent very well. Nor do they seem to understand the failure modes of AI. The "-- describe only what the code change does" is a good example. This is specifc but it also distinctly seems like someone who doesn't actually understand what makes AI writing obvious.

If you compare that vs human written prose about what makes AI writing feel AI you would see the difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

The above actually feels like text from someone who has read and understands what makes AI writing AI.

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