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morkalorkyesterday at 7:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

I am so very tired of 2 page long PR descriptions for a 5 line change.


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baqyesterday at 8:59 PM

Some 5-line changes deserve a phd.

But yeah, most probably don’t.

flemhanstoday at 1:16 AM

Use your existing desired style as exemplars

droobyyesterday at 10:25 PM

My team solved this by creating a PR draft skill that clamps the length of the description to 3-5 sentences max. Those 3-5 sentences must only say WHAT is changing and WHY.

I find it to be far more useful than when humans wrote PR descriptions. Many engineers didn't write one, and those that did were poorly written... this problem is mostly solved for us.. it still has LLMism speak.. but it's useful enough for me to get the context I need to do my review.

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