# Quoting Kenton Varda

> Source: <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/8/kenton-varda/#atom-everything>
> Published: 2026-07-08 20:03:34+00:00

I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team.

AI 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.

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