{"slug": "quoting-kenton-varda", "title": "Quoting Kenton Varda", "summary": "Kenton Varda declared a moratorium on AI-written change descriptions for his team, citing that AI-generated PR and commit messages omit higher-level context needed for code review.", "body_md": "I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team.\n\nAI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code that could easily be seen by looking at the code, but omitting the higher-level framing needed to understand broadly what the code is doing.\n\nTags: [kenton-varda](https://simonwillison.net/tags/kenton-varda), [ai-assisted-programming](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming), [generative-ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai), [ai](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai), [llms](https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-kenton-varda", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/kenton-varda/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-07-08 20:03:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-08 20:12:00.192593+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "large-language-models", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Kenton Varda"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-kenton-varda", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-kenton-varda.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-kenton-varda.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-kenton-varda.jsonld"}}