Claude Code can commit for you. By default, your name will be associated with each commit, and Claude Code includes a “Co-authored-by:” line, and also an Emoji line that says the commit was written by Claude. (You can turn the Emoji off.) However, if you hand off git commit to Claude Code, it’s possible, maybe even likely, because you want Claude to summarize changes that you did not come up with.
Last Saturday was Global Day of Code Retreat (GDCR) and one challenge session was to only use AI with prompts to implement the Game of Life rules. Folks who don’t use LLM’s a lot tried to describe the rules to the LLM in their prompts – while others knew that the rules are well-known and that the LLM could regurgitate them based on training data easily.
Over on Hacker News, under the title “We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds”, my pal Sascha’s post on Zettelkasten.de became the top post yesterday. The original title is “The Scam Called “You Don’t Have to Remember Anything””.
Something resonated with the tech community there, so I figured you might want to check out the post as well.
The 150+ comments went into all kinds of directions from a first screening. We’ll discuss this further in a couple of days. For now, enjoy reading Sascha’s post.
Nick Bergson-Shilcock of Recurse Center, Developing our position on AI (Emphasis mine): We chose at the outset to limit our focus to the personal and professional implications of LLMs on Recursers, since that’s what we’re knowledgeable about. You won’t find positions or pontification in this post on energy usage, misinformation, industry disruption, centralization of power, existential risk, the potential for job displacement, or responsible training data.
In New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code, Namanyay argues that StackOverflow would teach you something, while AI is all about speed. The graph Namanyay shared is this: Side note: Do you remember when StackOverflow was strongly associated with copy-paste-programming without understanding, and that Real Programmers™ read manuals and books instead?