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Developer argues AI-written commit messages often fabricate reasoning

A software developer describes shifting from writing detailed, first-person commit descriptions by hand to working in an agentic coding era where AI writes both code and commit messages. They note that when AI agents lack access to the full context behind a change — often scattered across chat tools, project trackers, or offline conversations — the agents invent plausible-sounding but inaccurate explanations for why a change was made.